A
giant's journey
Willie Kent was a burly man, a stainless
bassist, a real blues singer and a talented songwriter, but never an
icon of the Chicago blues though he did play with almost all the
Windy City renowned bluesmen. Among the best talented sidemen that
contributed to make Chicago blues a legend, he deserves to be put up
back where he belongs : on the
front line.
Familiar to the blues aficionados but much less to the average community of blues listeners, Kent has a special asset though : he recorded a dozen albums under his name, most of them with his long time band The Gents.
Familiar to the blues aficionados but much less to the average community of blues listeners, Kent has a special asset though : he recorded a dozen albums under his name, most of them with his long time band The Gents.