Artist: Casey Jones
Genre(s):
Hardcore
Discography:
The Messenger
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Long recognized as one of the Chicago circuit's pM drummers, magnetic Casey Jones has stirred out in front of his isthmus o'er the net decade rather of concealment behind his outfit. Casey discovered that trouncing his direction through the globe was playfulness patch oil production with his high school marching band back in Greenville. He stirred to Chicago in 1956. Before the end of the year, he was drumming professionally with an outfit called Otis Luke & the Rhythm Bombers (for a humongous five bucks a night). One auspicious 1959 night, Jones was forced to sing alive for the number 1 time when the pianist leading his isthmus was tossed in poky. He establish screaming like Little Richard was pretty gratifying excessively. Early '60s session work behind Earl Hooker, A.C. Reed, McKinley Mitchell, and Muddy Waters (1962's "You Need Love") unbroken Jones busy, as did performing on the South and West sides with the likes of Otis Rush and Freddy King. His profile rosiness markedly in 1978 when he slid into the drum chair with Albert Collins's hand-picked jazz group, the Icebreakers. His immaculate timekeeping powered the isthmus for six-and-a-half eld, and he played on Collins's first six Alligator albums (notably Icing Pickin' and the '85 tip meeting Confrontation! with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland).
Casey Jones has been keeping down Sunday nights at Chicago's democratic Kingston Mines cabaret for intimately a decennary -- a menstruum that's seen his possess discography grow steadily. 1987's Solid Blue for Rooster Blues preceded the formation of his have label, Airwax Records (reservoir of his terminal few CDs, including 1993's The Crowd Pleaser and [I-94] On My Way to Chicago in 1995).
