Perhaps the stereotypical Chicago bluesman, this big bellowing fellow (and bassist, too) is one of the city's busiest performers. A mainstay of the Buddy Guy/Junior Wells bands of the '70s (he was scheduled to participate in a Wells tribute at the 1999 Chicago Blues Festival), you can currently catch him with his band, the Chi-Town Hustlers. Says the Chicago Reader, though he "has always sounded to me as if he'd rather be playing funk than blues, ... he's a solid craftsman whose tendency to overplay is tempered by a solid rhythmic sense and an energetic attack."
Toured with Bo Diddley, James Cotton, Jimmy Walker, Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch, Margie Evans.
Recorded with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Syl Johnson, Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch
Founded the Chi-Town Hustlers in 1976
Also played with Jimmy Reed, Bobby Rush, Lonnie Brooks, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Big Mama Thorton.
