Music
BT is a musical walk down memory lane from one of the last living links to Chicago's gospel and electric blues scene in the mid-fifties and beyond. On his fifth album on Nola Blue Records, Benny celebrates the many special connections made in a music career spanning more than six decades!
Brook Benton and Dinah Washington’s 1960 release of "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" was a pop and R&B hit, reaching No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.1 on the Hot R&B sides charts. Benny Turner and Maria Muldaur, young adults at that time, were very early in their now legendary musical careers. Now, after more than six decades of performing, Turner and Nola Blue’s newly-signed Maria Muldaur bring a lifetime of experience to breathe unique life into the song.
Two Chicago blues legends reunite in the studio to revisit their roots and the songs they once played nightly in South and West Side nightspots!
"Nobody does it better than the ones who grew up doing it, of course. This is what one wants in a blues record, starting with terrific songs and soulful performance." - Jerome Clark, Rambles.net