Artist: Michael Burks
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Make It Rain
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Born in Milwaukee in 1957, vapors guitar player Michael Burks began erudition his pawn at an early age -- divine by his musical family (his father played basso and often performed aboard harmonica fable Sonny Boy Williamson II, while his gramps was a Delta-style bluesman from Camden, AR). By the age of five, he was playing on with his father, and picked up a thing or deuce from his parent's book compendium -- his fatherhood would often sacrifice his danton True Young boy incentive to teach songs by offering him a dollar mark for each strain he could successfully figure kayoed from beginning to close (a class later he made his execution debut in front of an consultation, when he joined a cousin's set on microscope stage). In the other '70s, Burks' begetter moved his family line to Arkansas, and opened up the Bradley Ferry Country Club (a 300-seat jook house articulatio), as Burks was hired as the leader of the sign of the zodiac band, mount numerous blues and R&B greats that played the locus.
By the time the club closed in the mid-'80s, Burks briefly place his love of megrims on the backburner, as he supported himself by pickings a job as a mechanical technician for Lockheed Martin, although he unruffled managed to play clubs and regional festivals. In 1997, Burks issued his very first album, From the Inside Out, producing the total record himself, which immediately racked up impressive reviews from respective honored blues publications (Blue devils Access raved the debut was "the most impressive indie in recent memory," while Living Blues named it one of "the best debut discs of the year"). 2001 saw the release of Burks' debut recording for the Alligator judge, Make It Rain, produced in Memphis by Jim Gaines (Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and Bruce Iglauer (Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Collins, Johnny Winter).
