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Bernard Allison
12+ albums
bluesblues rockfunky bluesguitarblues-rock
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Bernard Allison (born November 26, 1965) is an American blues guitarist and singer, based in Paris, France. Allison was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. His father, Luther Allison, was a Chicago blues musician. Allison moved back and forth between Illinois and Florida but remained close to his father's music whether with him or not. Always listening to his father's albums when they were apart. He accompanied his father to blues festivals in the early 1970s. There he was introduced to Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor and Albert King, amongst others. Allison taught himself to play in Florida while his father was touring internationally and displayed his early skills to his father when he was 12. His father brought him a Stratocaster guitar but required him to remain in school, although he did allow his son to join him on stage at the age of 18 at the 1983 Chicago Blues Festival. A week after his graduation from high school, he was invited to join Koko Taylor's touring band. During that time he furthered his skills under the tutelage of Johnny Winter whom he had met when younger and Stevie Ray Vaughan whom he met in the first year of his career. From 1985, although he remained with Koko Taylor, he also tried out his headline act Bernard Allison and Back Talk largely active in Canada. He became the bandleader for his father's touring band in Europe late in 1989 and with his father's assistance and the loan of his father's musicians recorded his debut album (The Next Gen
