Blue Monday with Johnny Burgin and the Jimmy Adler Band
Mon, Aug 22
|The Bridge Music Bar
Check out this week's special guest Johnny Burgin at The Bridge Music Bar's "Blue Monday" series with the Jimmy Adler Band!
Time & Location
Aug 22, 2022, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
The Bridge Music Bar, 6018 Broad St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
About the event
https://johnnyburgin.com/
Johnny Burgin grew up in the South and went to University of Chicago with the intention of becoming a writer. A different path unfolded when a fellow DJ at the college radio station took him out to a West Side ghetto club to hear the blues singer Tail Dragger. It was a conversion moment where the blues came to life for Johnny and he fell headfirst into the vibrant Chicago blues scene. Choosing the blues clubs over the library, Johnny eagerly absorbed the lessons from the blues masters who practiced their craft nightly. Through persistence and practice he gained a spot in Tail Dragger’s band, and started doing gigs in town and on the road with traditional blues veterans like Jimmie Lee Robinson, Sam Lay, and Pinetop Perkins. What at first he’d only dared to dream about coalesced into three concrete goals: to play in Europe, record his own…