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Ronnie Baker Brooks, Live, Viper Alley,

Ronnie Baker Brooks plays blues at Viper Alley on January 14, 2012. Ronnie was a long apprenticeship as bandleader for living legend patriarch, Lonnie Brooks. His primal effort helped him earn a WC Handy Award nomination for "Best New Blues Artist" and enough encouragement from fans and media to light the runway for takeoff of a successful solo career.

Ronnie's second cd, TAKE ME WITCHA, was released in 2001. By now, he was creating a major stir among the music community as a new kind of blues songsmith. He was writing scintillatingly youthful and urban compositions framed with pyrotechnic guitar work and the unbridled energy of a band more akin to rock and roll than anything else.

His career since has successfully navigated a path through the heaving landscape of independent music marketing, revealing how today's talented artist can achieve unprecedented self-determination in their careers with hard work, intelligent marketing and grass roots loyalty.

The four years spent carefully cultivating his latest recordings have paid great dividends with THE TORCH, the epitome of a courageous and genre-bending release. Heart and soul are laid bare on track after track as bridges are built between more traditional concepts of blues music and modern freedoms of expression.

An apt analogy, "THE TORCH" symbolizes Ronnie Baker Brook's role in the evolution of contemporary blues. A legacy steeped in the Chicago music tradition, he is ignited by passion for the family craft and fuelled by the responsibility of being crowned steward of the form by some of its most venerable masters. Ronnie bears the flame of a generations-old muse to an ever-widening modern audience.