Chris Bergson – Ellis Hooks
New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee Chris Bergson is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer and songwriter. “Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on – it’s B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield.” (ROLL Magazine) Alabama-born soul singer Ellis Hooks has recorded critically acclaimed albums as a leader for Evidence and Artemis Records, sung with Stax legends Steve Cropper and Little Milton and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and Italy’s Porretta Soul Festival. Together, Bergson and Hooks have been called “a modern-day blues-infused Sam and Dave,” (Glide Magazine) and have performed at many top European festivals including France’s Cognac Blues Passions and Cahors Blues Festival, Holland’s Southern Blues Night, Blues on the River and Germany’s Ingolstadt Bluesfest. Their latest album, Comforts of Home received Four Stars in MOJO magazine and was named one of Soul Bag magazine’s Best Albums of 2024. According to All Music Guide: “Until the arrival of Ellis Hooks on the 21st century blues and soul scenes with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the great stories surrounding these musics had already been told and passed into antiquity. …Not so…Hooks is the true continuum in the celebrated Southern traditions of soul, blues, and gospel; his voice, while reminiscent of some of the greats, is nonetheless his own, and his phrasing is a trademark. Given the powerful nature of his recordings and his now-storied intensity in concert, Hooks may indeed be the artist who brings these historic traditions back into the musical dialogue and onto the charts in the 21st century.”