LUCKY PETERSON

Lucky Peterson - 43 year old music prodigy (guitar, piano, organ and various instruments) started his schooling in the blues at such an early age that trainin' wheels were more appropriate than a drivin' wheel. Taking up drums at age three and shortly thereafter organ, bass, and guitar, the precocious Peterson appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and recorded an album with Willie Dixon at the youthful age of five. Fortunately, Lucky Peterson's virtuosity was tempered by a healthy dose of the blues since his father operated the Governor's Inn, a blues club in Buffalo, New York.

TRUDY LYNN

TRUDY LYNN Houston's "First Lady of Soul," Trudy Lynn was raised in Houston, where she was born Lee Audrey Nelms. Unlike many African-American vocalists, Lynn learned her singing in school, not in church. She felt confident enough to start a small vocal ensemble upon entering high school. After graduation in 1965, she spent the summer with an aunt in Lufkin, a rural Texas town about 100 miles from Houston. There, she found a club where, after singing the only two blues songs she knew (one of which was Etta James', " Tell Mama" ). She was asked to go on when the local girl couldn't make it one night. This is when the singing bug really grabbed her!

THEODIS EALEY

THEODIS EALEY Theodis Ealey began his career in music at the early age of 13, when his brother Y.Z. and Melvin Ealey discovered at the last moment that they were without a bass player. Both thought for a moment and came to the same conclusion. Theodis knows all our songs and plays bass. That night he made his first stage appearance at the Horseshoe Circus in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. He performed with his brothers for several years until Melvin decided to move to California.

CHICK WILLIS

CHICK WILLIS Cousin to the late blues ballad singer Chuck Willis, Robert "Chick" Willis is primarily beloved for his ribald, dozens-based rocker "Stoop Down Baby." The guitarist cut his original version in 1972 for tiny La Val Records of Kalamazoo, MI, selling a ton of 45's for the jukebox market only (the tune's lyrics were way too raunchy for airplay).

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