$15 ticket in advance / $20 day of show.
The Chris Bergson Band featuring Ellis Hooks returns to the Bitter End on Thursday, December 19th bringing their "gut-busting horn bedecked NY blues." (MOJO) They'll be performing music from their latest album Comforts of Home (2 Shirts / CRS) which just received a four star review in the November issue of MOJO.
Comforts of Home captures the Chris Bergson Band with Moses Patrou on keyboards/vocals, bassist Matt Clohesy, groovemaster drummer Diego Voglino and Jay Collins playing and arranging the horns - plus special guests Alexis P. Suter, Bernard Purdie, Dave Keyes and Ellis Hooks. Recorded live at Brooklyn’s Grand Street Recording, most of Bergson’s vocals and blazing guitar were done in complete live takes.
"Four Stars...As elegant and affecting as ever." - MOJO
“The music sits right at the intersection of blues and soul...This is Bergson’s most well-crafted, fully realized album to date." - Rock and Blues Muse
“Bergson's guitar work is a masterclass in subtlety and sophistication."
- Blues Matters (UK) don't
“[With] Ellis Hooks - the singer in whom Sam Cooke chose to reincarnate - Chris' traveling companion for years, happily present on three tracks... Note the presence of the legendary Dave Keyes on piano and Bernard Purdie on drums in You lie, a captivating jazzy funk, and Laid up with my bad leg in Lenox, classic-rock shared on vocals with Hooks, all fiery brass and inspired slide included . A highly personal record, breathtaking in sincerity and subtle discoveries that will captivate the most demanding listener. Exceptional!" - Soul Bag (FR)
Chris Bergson is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer and songwriter. “Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on – it’s B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield.” (ROLL Magazine) Hailed as "the New York street poet with a blues soul" (MOJO) and "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music," (All Music Guide) Bergson is best known as the leader of the Chris Bergson Band. Elmore Magazine calls the Chris Bergson Band “one of the most talented bands playing today...From blazing rock to funk to soul to Delta blues and all that's in between.” Bergson is also an accomplished sideman who has performed with luminaries across a wide range of genres including pop and rock (Norah Jones, Levon Helm), blues and soul (Hubert Sumlin, Bernard Purdie) and jazz (Annie Ross, Al Foster and Matt Wilson.) The Chris Bergson Band’s 2007 album Fall Changes, recorded at The Band drummer Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, was named MOJO Magazine’s Number One Blues Album of the Year in 2008. Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015. Bergson is an Associate Professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a D'Addario Artist.