Blues Night Out with JD Simo and the Jimmy Adler Band featuring Johnny Burgin
Sat, Apr 30
|Blawnox
Blues Night Out is back featuring JD Simo with the Jimmy Adler Band featuring guitar slinger Johnny Burgin. Check out Johnny's work at https://johnnyburgin.com/ Doors at 6, show at 7:30.
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2022, 7:30 PM EDT
Blawnox, 378 Freeport Rd, Blawnox, PA 15238, 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…