BARRELHOUSE CHUCK ( II )

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Barrelhouse Chuck (born Charles Goering, July 10, 1958) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist, keyboardist, singer, and songwriter.

He claims to be the only Chicago blues pianist to have studied under Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Blind John Davis, Detroit Junior and Little Brother Montgomery. To date, his work has appeared on fourteen albums.

He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, United States, and learned to play the drums by the age of six. He later graduated to the piano, and had relocated with his family to Gainesville, Florida, before he first heard a Muddy Waters record. It was by listening to blues records that Barrelhouse Chuck learned the techniques of blues piano playing. He formed his own bands including The Red Rooster Band and Red House plus Barrelhouse Chuck & The Blue Lights in his teenage years, and followed Muddy Waters around the Southern United States trying to pick up playing tips from his pianist Pinetop Perkins. In 1979, he drove from Florida to Chicago, Illinois, to introduce himself to Sunnyland Slim. Barrelhouse Chuck spent the next decade and a half studying his playing, along with other Chicago blues musicians including Blind John Davis, Little Brother Montgomery and Erwin Helfer. In the company of Montgomery for a long time, Barrelhouse Chuck later remarked "Little Brother was like a grandfather to me".

Over the years, Barrelhouse Chuck has played or recorded with Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, and Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers. For a time in the late 1990s he played with Mississippi Heat, and undertook a tour with Nick Moss and the Flip Tops.

His debut album, Salute to Sunnyland Slim, was released on Blue Loon Records in 1999, and contained supporting work from S.P. Leary, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.[5] It was re-issued in 2005. The follow-up was Prescription for the Blues (2002), when Erwin Helfer appeared on three tracks. Kim Wilson played the harmonica on Barrelhouse Chuck's 2006 offering, Got My Eyes on You.

In February 2008, Wilson asked Barrelhouse Chuck to assist in recording the soundtrack for the film, Cadillac Records. His other credits include numerous appearances at the Chicago Blues Festival.

As of 2012, Barrelhouse Chuck maintains a full performance schedule in Chicago, around the United States, and occasionally abroad, including a regular solo appearance on Wednesday nights at The Barrelhouse Flat, a bar in Lincoln Park.

On February 24, 2012, Barrelhouse Chuck played at the "Howlin' For Hubert" concert at The Apollo Theater.

In 2013 and 2014, Barrelhouse Chuck was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player' category. In 2014 Drifting from Town to Town was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Traditional Blues Album Award Of The Year' category.

                         

                                                                                                         
             

Barrelhouse Chuck draws on a distinguished lineage to create a blues, boogie-woogie and barrelhouse piano style that places him at the forefront of a celebrated tradition.  Grammy Award nominee, and BMA Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year nominee, Chuck is the only Chicago blues pianist to have studied under Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Blind John Davis, Detroit Junior and Little Brother Montgomery.

Over last 30 years, Chuck developed his formidable mastery of blues piano and went on to perform or record with most of the notable Chicago blues musicians-people like Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Kim Wilson, Hubert Sumlin, Otis Rush, Louis Myers, Buddy Guy, and Big Smokey Smothers, among many others. His recording credits reads like a Who's Who of modern day Chicago blues. During the past three decades Chuck has played all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and tours Europe regularly. He has also appeared more than a dozen times at the Chicago Blues Festival.

Even though most of his teachers have passed on, Barrelhouse Chuck has become one of the bearers of the flame, and keeps both their spirit and music alive, passing it along where ever he plays.

"Who's playin' that piano? You play my shit good!" - Muddy Waters

"You got soul, man!" - Eddie Kendricks

"Can you leave tomorrow? I want you to join my band." - Albert King