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CHRIS
BERGSON
BAND

"COMFORTS
OF
HOME"

CHRIS

BERGSON

BAND

2 SHIRTS RECORDS

RELEASE DATE : MAY 30, 2024

(USA)

Musicians:
Chris Bergson – guitars, vocals
Ellis Hooks – Vocals  
Moses Patrou – keyboards, percussion, backing vocals 
Matt Clohesy – bass 
Diego Voglino – drums (Tracks 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10,11,12), backing vocals 
Michael Blake – tenor sax  
Jay Collins – baritone and tenor sax
Reggie Pittman – trumpet  
Special Guests: 
Alexis P. Suter – vocals (Track 2)
Bernard Purdie – Drums (Tracks 4,6)
Dave Keyes – piano 
Vicki Bell, Chloe Ross – backing vocals

Tracklist:
01 Feelin' Good Today 04:14
02 Retribution 04:09
03 Comforts of Home 05:22
04 You Lied 04:38
05 Delussions Of Night 06:02
06 Laid Up 05:28
07 Sometimes It's You 04:19
08 Think About It Twice 03:47
09 Uptown Side 04:38
10 Chloe's Song 04:01
11 Moses Supposes 03:43
12 Epilogue 02:02

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Like countless other projects, this album was conceived during the pandemic. Born in 1976 in New York, Chris Bergson is, in addition to being a musician, professor of guitar at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and an accomplished artist. After moving with his family to Boston, a city where he played in several rock bands, he returned to NYC at the age of eighteen to settle permanently. He began professionally as a jazz guitarist, although soon Miike Bloomfield's guitar riffs learned from the album "Father & Sons", which his parents gave him when he was ten years old, took on relevance in his guitar playing. In 1997 he recorded his first solo album "Blues For Some Friends Of Mine" which was followed by two more albums until the mid-2000s when he formed the Chris Bergson Band, established a personal and professional relationship with keyboardist Dave Keyes, together they played with Hubert Sumlin and Levon Helm and recording the band's first album "Fall Changes" at Helm's studios in Woodstock, being one of the band's best release. Bergson has performed several times in Europe and Africa. Mid-2010 soul singer Ellis Hooks intermittently joined the band and can be heard singing on the live album "Live at Jazz Standard". In addition to being an exceptional  and convincing guitarist, Bergson stands out for his ability to compose magnificent songs, a mix of blues, soul and gospel that credit him among the most complete and visceral composers of his generation and at the head of the New York blues scene. This album is a perfect example of all of this.

PREVIOUS ALBUMS RELEASED

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1997

2011

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2000

2014

2003

2017

2005

2019

2007

2021

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Michael Blake   Jay Collins 
Reggie Pittman 

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Alexis P. Suter

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