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| As the story goes, Charles "Barrelhouse Chuck" Goering, an aspiring keys player, drove 24 hours straight up from Florida to B.L.U.E.S. on Hasted to see Sunnyland Slim twinkle some magic. The man would follow Muddy Waters around town (so often he came up with a gang called the "Mud Heads") just to be in the presence of his then-piano player, Pinetop Perkins. It was Sunnyland, though, who took Chuck under his wing for the next ten years and connected the aspiring bluesman's hands with Lafayette Leake and Little Brother Montgomery.
Though he's played with virtually every blues musician in Chicago, from Otis Rush to Devil In A Woodpile, and sessioned for near 18 record labels, Chuck didn't cut a record of his own until 1999's Salute To Sunnyland Slim. This was followed by a trio of compilation odes to many of the piano players who inspired him over his 25-year career. In fact most of the artist's oeuvre is either made up of someone else's tunes, or at least songs in honor of someone either than Chuck Goering. However, he's certainly one of his own mold, pacing honky-tonk and boogie struts over an almost angst-ridden, nasal charm of a voice. His latest, 2006's Got My Eyes On You, treads a darker path. (Gavin Paul) For more information, visit their website: http://www.barrelhousechuck.com/
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