Bernard Allison's ""Kentucky Fried Blues"" Available on DVD April 22, 2003

Through Music Video Distributors

3-Mar-03

Music Video Distributors and In-Akustik are pleased to announce the home viewing release of Bernard Allison - Kentucky Fried Blues for North American distribution on DVD. Critics seldom agree upon anything so much as they do with Bernard Allison. The son of the blues legend Luther Allison is regarded as one of the most important and creative representatives of 21st century blues. And correspondingly, the career of the guitarist and singer born in Chicago in 1965 has taken a steep course. Luther Allison, who has since passed away, loved to tell the following tale. It was in 1978 when he had just returned from a tour and a studio had been booked for the next day in order to do some live recording for an album. Luther Allison woke up rather irritated because he could hear his own music playing loudly. Half asleep, he went downstairs and saw his 13-year old son playing the guitar. As a result, the youngster was allowed to come to the session to make his first recordings on tape for two songs of the album ìGonna Be A Live One Here Tonight.î The foundation for his career had been laid. From then on things happened fast and Bernard Allison began recording his own albums. With each new album he showed new ways of interpreting the good old blues. And each time he underlined his testimony from the Next Generation days, ""I do not want to be put into the same category as my dad. A considerable amount of his blues feeling is naturally also within me. This is nothing unusual. But I donít want people to compare his music with mine. Iím not a pure blues man, but a musician who is open to all kinds of influences."" The guitarist and singer has stuck to his motto. In doing so, he has definitely found his own mixture of rock, blues, R & B and funk. And he keeps on setting new trends on the guitar - always to the delight of his own worldwide flock of critics. It is hardly possible to put the blues into music in a more up-to-date, colorful and complex way than Bernard Allison does. Recorded at W.C. Handy Festival in Henderson, Kentucky (August 1999). Tracks include: Buzz Me Going Down Bad Love Life Is A Bitch Midnight Creeper Leave My Girl Alone