Lucky Peterson
Blues Unplugged III
Carpenter Performing Arts Center - Cal State Long Beach
Long Beach, California
April 17, 1990

with guest Pinetop Perkins

Judge Kenneth Peterson (1964–2020), played guitar and keyboards and was known professionally as Lucky Peterson.
Peterson's father, bluesman James Peterson, owned a nightclub in Buffalo called The Governor’s Inn, a juke joint that was a popular stop for blues musicians, Howlin’ Wolf among them.
John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and many others came through and sometimes they’d let the young Lucky perform with them.
Willie Dixon saw the five-year-old performing at the club and, in Peterson's words, "Took me under his wing."
Months later, Peterson performed on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show and What's My Line?.
Millions of people watched Peterson sing "1-2-3-4", a cover version of "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown.
Around this time he recorded his first album, "Our Future: 5 Year Old Lucky Peterson", for Today/Perception Records and appeared on the public television show, Soul!

Lucky Peterson - electric guitar, piano and vocals

01. You Know It Ain't Right > Make My Move on You
02. You Shook Me > Little Red Rooster > (unknown song title)
03. You Don’t Have To Go > I’m Back Again > (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
encore:
04. Got My Mojo Working (with Pinetop Perkins on piano and vocals)
05. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (with Pinetop Perkins on piano and vocals)
[44:55]


From master DAT tape recorded by Bill W.
Sony ECM-909A Electret Condenser Stereo Microphone > Sony TCD7 @ LP

note: Recorded on the Long Play setting with a reduced bandwidth of 16KHz.

Transfer by Flying -M- (3/2021)
Otari DTR 8S > Korg MR 2000S
Har-Bal 3.7 & iZotope RX 8 advanced (prep) > CD Wave > Korg Aqua (16-44) > TLH

Thanks to Bill for recording and loaning me his masters so this could be shared.

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-M- (July 2022)

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