Bernard Allison

Bernard Allison (* November 26, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Bernard, the youngest of nine children of the blues legend Luther Allison, played 13 years for the first time at a live recording of his father. After leaving school he played in Koko Taylor's Blues Machine band and Willie Dixon's Blues All-Stars. With his father he performed at blues festivals. Among his teachers were also Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

In 1989, Allison to Paris to live and act with his father. In the same year, the two had a remarkable performance at the Chicago Blues Festival to hear on the album Let's Try It Again by Luther Allison.

In 1990 Bernard Allison's first solo album. In 1999, two years after his father's death, Allison went back to the United States, where he now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his family.

The white cobras on the hat, with which it occurred a long time, have a special story: After he had refused to wear such a hat with a cobra, as it is entitled only to his late father, gave him his fans a hat with two cobra heads that were attached erected in the viewing direction. They put him close, the Cobra was the second of his father, who accompany him since his death. This he accepted and entered afterwards on with this headgear until 2007 to decided to separate from the hat. " I just thought that it would be about time for a change ," he said, in the same year in an interview with the German music magazine bluesnews.

In September 2012, Allison played with the drummer, guitarist, singer and three-time Blues Music Award winner Cedric Burnside at the Winterland Studios in his hometown of Minneapolis an album together one that came in January 2013 under the title Allison Burnside Express on the market.

Discography

Albums

Guest musicians

DVD

• Kentucky Fried Blues ( 2003)
• Energized. Live in Europe (2006)