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LIKE A HURRICANE
VASTI JACKSON
LIVE AT SALA WOLF
BARCELONA - SPAIN
05-30-2024
Vasti Jackson (McComb, Mississippi, 1959) passed through Spanish lands like a hurricane. In his five concerts Vasti showed why he's one of the most energetic and forceful bluesmen to take the stage today. We attended his show in Barcelona and this man fulfilled any expectations that the hundred fans present might have had beforehand. Powerful statements from Muddy Waters (Hoochie Coochie Man) and Elmore James (The Sky Is Cryin') were presents
he professed his admiration for Johnny "Guitar" Watson (I Get A Feeling), and in his own songs he showed his solidity and tenacity as a composer. With the guitar he reached the climax with a review of Prince's "Purle Rain", which he drove the audience crazy to end his performance. Vasti Jackson started playing in McComb clubs and from 1990 he joined Malaco and Alligator Records as a sideman guitarist, his song "Let the Juke Joint Jump" was included on the album "Force Of Nature" by Koko Taylor and in 1995 he played on BB King's Grammy Award-winning album, "Blues Summit." The following year, Vasti released his first solo album "Vas-Tie Jackson". As a producer, his work can be found on albums by Bobby Rush (Hoochie Man - 2000), Henry Butler (Homeland - 2004), films such as "Woman Thou Art Loosed" (2004) and played the title role in the play, Robert Johnson The Man, The Myth, The Music" (2011). Also in 2001 Jackson was one of the performers in "Warming by the Devil's Fire", one of the Martin Scorsese's film documentaries in
the series "The Blues". Since 2014 he has traveled the world as a cultural ambassador for Mississippi State, he alludes that "it is not a blues-eum", its music contains all the genres that have built African-American music of the twentieth century, blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and rock'n'roll and his trajectory It has taken him to preach it in performances all over the world. Contemporary Mississippi bluesman, acoustic or electric, with deep roots in the delta blues that constantly inspects all the possibilities of perpetuating the genre.
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TAKE A WALK THROUGH HIS ALBUMS
All pics by Àngel "Zuddy" Zudaire
S E E Y O U S O O N M A T E !
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