Bob Stroger - In The House

Bob Stroger, bass player and blues vocalist, was born in the state of Missouri. He moved to Chicago in 1955 where he lived in the back of a night club on the West Side. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were regulars there. “It looked like they were having a lot of fun, and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music,” Bob remembers. A veteran of the Chicago blues music scene, during his forty-years-plus career, Bob has recorded and worked with a long list of contemporaries.
In 1998, Bob and an all-star group of fellow musicians played the Lucerne Blues Festivals in Switzerland. The recordings were made by American engineer, Jerry Hall, and were mixed and mastered in Bremen, Germany. This is Bob Stroger's first album under his own name. He's supported by first-rate musicians, including in-demand session piano player and 'Delmark' recording artist, Ken Saydak and his trio, the soulful guitar of another 'Delmark' regular, James Wheeler, and Billy Flynn who's one of the finest artists today when it comes to traditional style (slide)guitar playing.
This band sounds very cool. Chicago blues may sound a bit out-dated in general, but these guys are the living example of how moving and exciting blues from the windy city once was, and still can be. Swinging and grooving Chicago style blues at its best! ~ Crosscut Records