Mike Zito Band
Tue, 07 Apr
|The Beaverwood
Event cancelled due to Coronavirus. We will try to reschedule this for another time.
Time & Location
07 Apr 2020, 19:30 – 23:00
The Beaverwood, Beaverwood Road, Chislehurst, UK
About The Event
Tickets: £13 in advance/£15 on the door.
For Tickets Phone: 0208 761 9078
Zito’s latest album -- his 16th – out now and descriptively titled Rock N Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry, finds him broadening his boundaries still further. The album consists of 20 Chuck Berry classics performed by Zito and an impressive array of 21 guest guitarists, among them Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, Eric Gales, Robben Ford, Sonny Landreth, Luther Dickinson, Albert Castiglia, Anders Osborne and, significantly, Chuck’s grandson, Charles Berry III.
“This was a very special project for me,” Zito says. “I lived in Chuck’s hometown of St. Louis for 32 years, and I worked at a small musical instrument store where his drummer also happened to be employed. Chuck’s son would drop by on occasion as well. He was an icon, and rightfully so. I’ve been playing his songs since I was a kid. He was a tremendous influence on my career, and, of course, on many other musicians’ as well.”
With Rock N Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry, Mike Zito does what he does best, making an album that’s humble, heartfelt, skilled and sublime....and, to paraphrase Chuck himself, letting it rock all at the same time.