Bob Stroger & The Headcutters @ Harmonia Lyra, Brazil

On March 17, the Harmonia-Lyra Society will be the stage of the presentation of an American blues legend. The bassist, singer and composer Bob Stroger will play classics of the style together with The Headcutters band, from Itajaí, a blues reference in Brazil.

Born in 1930 in Missouri, Bob moved to Chicago and spent there to accompany other legends such as Eddie King, Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Eddy Clearwater, Sunnyland Slim, Louisiana Red, among many others. Bob has already won awards including Grammy, Living Blues Awards and Blues Music Awards.

Tickets on sale at: https://www.sympla.com.br/…/show-de-blues-com…/1873547

Entry:

1st Lot R$ 70.00

(sale from 02/08 to 02/20)

(seats not numbered)

• Half admission available for seniors, students, persons with disabilities limited to the percentage provided by law.

2nd batch R$ 80.00

(sale from 02/21 to 03/15)

(seats not numbered)

• Half admission available for seniors, students, persons with disabilities limited to the percentage provided by law.

Room for 4 people: R$ 100,00 per person (buy only via phone 47 98412 2004).

BOB STROGER

Have Bass Will Travel…. I was born in South East Missouri in a small town Haiti, where I lived on a farm. I moved to Chicago in 1955. I lived in the back of a night club on the West Side, where Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters played. It looked like they were having a lot of fun and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music. I got married at an early age and I used to watch my brother-in-law play music. His name was Johnny Ferguson and he and JB Hutto had a band they called the Twisters. They were working on 39’th and State Street in Chicago and I would carry them to work every night and watch them. Then at home I would try to teach myself to play. My cousin Ralph Ramey said that we should start a band and we did just that. We got my brother (John Stroger), who played the drums, to learn the songs we knew and in four months we were making some noise. We went to a club and played two songs and the man said we had a job. It was one of the better clubs, where musicians like Memphis Slim worked. The owner wanted us to wear uniforms but we had no money to buy them, so we got black tams and put a red circle in the top and called the band the Red Tops and that was the way it started. We got so good that they wanted the band to travel, but Ralph’s wife did not wont him to travel. so my brother formed a band with Willie Kent and myself and called it Joe Russel and the Blues Hustlers. We played together for a while,but eventually I decided to move on, because i wanted to travel more and see the world and I found out you can make money doing this. I joined a jazz band and played with Rufus Forman for about 3 years, but we were doing very little work. Then I met Eddie King and we talked. I told him I was in a jazz band and we needed a guitar player that could play blues. He sead OK and joined our groop, and we started playing blues and RB and things took off. We called the band Eddie King and King Men, and we stayed together for 15 years. Then we split up for about 2 years and later we started the band up as Eddie King and Babee May and the Blues Machine and we stayed together until Eddie King moved out of town. I quit playing for 2 years becouse we were so close I did not want to play with anyone but Eddie. Then I met Jessie Grean when I was playing with Morris Pejo and he liked the way I played bass and one night Otis Rush need a bass player, so Jessie said come and work with him. The rest is history. I have been playing music for 39 years and I am still having fun.

Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That’s My Name

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Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That’s My Name

Bob Stroger & The Headcutters – That’s My Name
Delmark DE 871 (February 18 2022)

NINETY-YEAR-OLD“SIR”BOB STROGER, LORD OF THE BLUES, has had a glorious musical career and played with the greatest. He has appeared on more than 30 Delmark releases. “That’s My Name” by Bob Stroger & the Headcutters marks his first Delmark album as a leader.  The Headcutters are a crack blues quartet hailing from Brazil, and they are a welcome addition to the Delmark family.

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