★★★★★
Lucky Peterson is a gifted musician indeed. Born in Buffalo, NY, he was a child star of some note having appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and What's My Line. The youngster wowed audiences far and wide. His first record, a single, was produced by none other than the late Willie Dixon when Lucky was five years of age. Now a triple threat performer, Lucky excels on vocals, guitar, and keyboards including the Wurlitzer electric piano and the venerable Hammond B-3...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Some oldies but goodies get a funky, soulful-sounding treatment on Lucky Peterson's Black Midnight Sun. Peterson knows how to work it on organ and guitar, in the songs he chooses and the musicians on the album. He's also got the funk with Parliament/Funkadelic alumnus Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey on drums. Black Midnight Sun starts with soft bass licks from Bill Laswell and bursts into a cover of Muddy Waters' "Herbert Harper's Free Press...
- www.globalrhythm.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Son of Buffalo blues musician and club owner James Peterson, 34-year old Lucky Peterson recorded his first album at age 5 ? and Willie Dixon produced it. Lucky is aptly named, but the thing that makes him lucky is not his birthright or his early start ? it's his talent. Peterson plays nasty wah-wah-tinged guitar, soulful B-3, saucy electric piano, and he sings with captivating intensity. This self-titled release contains more soul than blues tunes...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
For those who think that the blues has used up all its ideas in overly-cliched songs about somebody's woman doin' him wrong, played over the usual ba-DA-da-Da-da beat, a new record has appeared on the horizon brimming with new twists on grand old ideas.That record is Lucky Peterson's Double Dealin'.What makes a record truly great is its ability branch out into different genres while remaining rooted in the foundation from which it sprang...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Lucky Peterson is a smooth operator, cool and always in control with a guitar tone reminiscent of the more restrained sides of Roy Buchanan or Carlos Santana. He's capable of lashing out, though, as the livewire showstopper "Don't Cloud Up On Me" ably proves. But this versatile musician is most distinctive with his Hammond organ and Wurlitzer electric piano sound, instruments that he's been playing professionally since the age of five...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Black Midnight Sun is the first release on the Dreyfus label by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Lucky Peterson, joined here by producer Bill Laswell on bass and former Parliament/Funkadelic drummer Jerome "Bigfoot" Braily. While the disc features a few Peterson originals, the majority of the album relies on cover versions...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Call this Peterson's 'back to my roots' blues album, but it finds him in more retro territory than his previous outings. There's a distinctive Albert King-Freddie King-Albert Collins almost-'70s feel to all the music here and the support of roots players like Johnny B. Gayden, Dennis Chambers and Butch Bonner makes this much more of a ensemble effort...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
As a triple threat, guitarist/organist/singer Lucky Peterson is able to vary the usual repetitive patterns that a full-length album of blues music can fall into, and though the back cover of his self-titled 1999 album advises "File Under: BLUES, " advice we would not dispute, a lot of different bases are covered on the album...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
As one of the most versatile players in blues, Lucky Peterson ranks among the best of the best. His first release for the Blue Thumb label, Double Dealin' showcases the artist on 12 great songs soaked in the sentiments and emotions that characterize the blues style...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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