Chris Bergson Band | Album Release with Special Guests Alexis P. Suter and Dave Keyes
The Chris Bergson Band returns to The Falcon to celebrate the release of their new album, Comforts of Home (2 Shirts Records). Comforts of Home captures the Chris Bergson Band in its new lineup with Moses Patrou on keyboards/vocals, longtime bassist Matt Clohesy, drummer Diego Voglino and Jay Collins playing and arranging the horns along with special guests legendary drummer Bernard Purdie, Brooklyn vocal powerhouse Alexis P. Suter, 5x Blues Music Award nominated pianist Dave Keyes and acclaimed soul singer Ellis Hooks. Recorded live at Brooklyn’s Grand Street Recording, most of Bergson’s vocals and blazing guitar were done in complete live takes.
From the sweetness of “Chloe’s Song,” written for his baby daughter (now a teenager who sings with Bergson on the track) to “Retribution (Is Coming For You),” a horn-fueled promise of karmic justice, the Chris Bergson Band’s first album since 2017 sighs and sizzles, marking the 20th anniversary of the founding of the band.
A standout track that encapsulates the message the album delivers is “You Lied,” featuring legendary drummer Bernard Purdie, Dave Keyes on piano, and Matt Clohesy on bass. The live-in-the-studio track features a funky New Orleans groove, the perfect complement to Bergson's fiery guitar and gritty blend of New York blues and soul. Purdie said of the session, “It was dynamite! I was thrilled. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it does.”
Chris Bergson is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer and songwriter. “Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on – it’s B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield.” (ROLL Magazine) Hailed as "the New York street poet with a blues soul" (MOJO) and "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music," (All Music Guide) Bergson is best known as the leader of the Chris Bergson Band. Elmore Magazine calls the Chris Bergson Band “one of the most talented bands playing today...From blazing rock to funk to soul to Delta blues and all that's in between.” Bergson is also an accomplished sideman who has performed with luminaries across a wide range of genres including Norah Jones, Levon Helm, Hubert Sumlin, Bernard Purdie, Annie Ross, Al Foster and Matt Wilson. The Chris Bergson Band’s 2007 album Fall Changes, recorded at The Band drummer Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, was named MOJO Magazine’s Number One Blues Album of the Year in 2008. Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015. Chris Bergson is currently an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he teaches guitar and songwriting.
"Over the past decade, Chris Bergson has become one of the most interesting blues-inspired songwriters. He describes the streetscapes and nightscapes of city life, painting small, memorable pictures, a kind of Edward Hopper of the blues." - The Blues Magazine (UK)
"Authentic but not stifled by tradition...Bergson is the classic triple threat." - Jambands.com
"Seriously street-smart songwriting and Allman-esque vocal prowess..." - Gibson.com