Ronnie Baker Brooks

     Chicago guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and multiple Blues Music Award-winner Ronnie
Baker Brooks is one of the city’s—and the world’s—most undeniably talented and
electrifying bluesmen. Ronnie was born into Chicago blues royalty as the son of
legendary multiple GRAMMY Award nominee, Hall Of Famer, and longtime Alligator
Records recording star Lonnie Brooks.

     He is among the few contemporary blues artists
who learned his craft directly from many of the genre’s icons, including Albert Collins,
B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor and, most significantly, his father. “I’m blessed to
have played with and learned from the best. I’m carrying them within me,” he says of all
the legends he knew growing up and the journey he’s been on.
With his new Blues Music Award-winning Alligator Records debut, Blues In My DNA,
Ronnie delivers an up-to-the-minute, organic masterpiece. The album, the fifth of his
career, is firmly rooted in the blues with Ronnie incorporating his own brand of rock,
funk and soul to the mix. “I just play what I feel,” he says. “It’s all from the heart.”
Produced by famed studio wizard Jim Gaines (who has produced Santana, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Lonnie Brooks, Luther Allison and many others), Blues In My DNA is a
career-defining statement from Baker Brooks, with each of the 11 original songs its own
chapter in his ever-evolving story.