“Whatever Tito wants, he got it from Bobby Rush.”īaton Rouge artist Jonathon Long, whose own interview with ABS came out earlier this month, plays rhythm guitar on the title track alongside Joe Bonamassa on lead. “I am the ground root of the blues.” The blues icon has profound respect for the Jackson 5 and knew that his energy and rhythm would be valuable to Tito in making the record. “Now we got many other people there, of course Stevie Wonder would be the biggest artist, but he ain’t the ground root of the blues,” Bobby said. As just one example, the single “Love One Another” has Stevie Wonder and Kenny Neal playing harmonica, and Bobby Rush shares lead vocal duties with Tito.īobby jumped onboard the project because, he said, “I wanted to be part of something that was good.” When Bobby lived in Chicago decades ago, he remembers Joe Jackson bringing his young sons by the house, and Bobby visited their home in nearby Gary, Indiana, as well.
The 11-song collection beautifully illustrates what happens when you meld superstars of both the pop and blues worlds. Tito’s new album, Under Your Spell, is 100% blues and is out now via Mike Zito’s Gulf Coast Records. Look back at those old Jackson 5 videos and you’ll see Tito playing gorgeous blues solos you might have missed as an 8-year-old. Before the Jackson 5 became international pop phenomena, the young brothers were learning the blues from their elders and performing blues music in their sets through their years of talent shows and chitlin’ circuit gigs.
His father Joe played guitar in The Falcons, a local blues band in Gary, Indiana Uncle Luther Jackson fronted The Loose Cannon Blues Band and played the role of Pinetop Perkins in the 1980 Blues Brothers movie. Whether by nature or by nurture, Tito Jackson is a bluesman.
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