Lucky Peterson: Black Midnight Sun (CD)

Lucky Peterson

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Label:: Dreyfus
Year of recording ca.:: 2002
UPC/EAN:: 3460503664326
Release date:: 9.6.2009

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Lucky Peterson -- at 38 already a soul blues veteran through stints with Little Milson, Bobby Blue Bland, Otis Rush and Etta James, and a hit single at the remarkable age of 5 -- has a whomping funk / soul / blues masterpiece in the making with his new ‘Black Midnight Sun,’ set for release May 6 on Dreyfus Records. Fiery, fluid multi-instrumentalist Peterson sings, and plays all keyboards and guitar on the album.

As scholar Bill Murphy writes in the album’s notes: Lucky Peterson seems to have set fire to the past with ‘Black Midnight Sun’ – a molten slab of unusual and, dare we say it, slightly twisted updates of a fistful of electric blues, rock, soul and funk classics. Laced with alternating flashes of dark introspection and spiritual redemption, a good deal of the music here almost perfectly encapsulates, given the tumultuous chain of world events of the last two years, the mixture of uneasiness and expectation so prevalent in today’s political and socio-economic climates far less a “protest” or even a “concept” album than it is a masterful study in musicianship and free collaboration, and with a rhythm section comprised of former Parliament-Funkadelic veteran Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey on drums and the ever-prolific New York-based producer Bill Laswell on bass, Lucky is provided with some seriously pugnacious grooves to back up his stuff.

‘Black Midnight Sun’ collects radical reworking of uncommon material, and several Peterson originals which stand as songwriting equals. From its title track, penned by Marc Ribot, known among post-modern jazz heads for his experimental “out” guitar work with the Rootless Cosmopolitans, and first recorded by British arthouse rock vocalist David Sylvian, Peterson’s free-ranging archealogical digs have uncovered diverselost classics like “Herbert Harper’s Free Press” (first recorded in 1968 by Muddy Waters for his controversial “Psychedelic” record Electric Mud) to “Lucky In Love” (written by Mick Jagger for his 1985 solo debut She’s The Boss), to songs by soulsters Syl Johnson (“Is it Because I’m Black) and Johnny Taylor (“Jody’s Got Your Girl And Gone”), to covers of James Brown (“Talkin’ Loud and Saying Nothing) and Sly Stone (“Thank you for Talkin’ To Me Africa”).

Lucky Peterson has known The Blues since he was a kid. His very first record, recorded at age five, was produced by none other than Willie Dixon, and he grew up basking in the sounds and tutelage of greats like Jimmy Smith, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jimmy Reed. Lucky started out on drums, but soon became adept at the Hammond B-3 organ and later guitar and bass, sharpening up his chops as an organ player in Little Milton Cambell’s touring band while he was still just a teenager. This eventually led to a stint with Memphis blues and soul maven Bobby “Blue” Bland, with whom Lucky toured and played for several years before striking out on his own.