From the Promoter

Hardworking blues master from Chicago 'Rockin' Johnny Burgin is joined by Toronto’s Sugar Brown and the People Blues Army Band, who are performing at Hugh's Room Live on June 28.

On this special evening, two old friends reunite to play the blues they learned and played together on the West Side of Chicago in the early 1990s: Rockin’ Johnny Burgin and Sugar Brown. Both were undergraduates at the University of Chicago, and both were sidemen for the famed West Side singer, Taildragger. In that band (the La-Z Boys), Rockin’ Johnny played guitar and Sugar Brown played harmonica; in fact, it was Taildragger who gave Sugar Brown his stage name. In 1994, Sugar Brown left Chicago to do historical and philosophical research in Japan, while Rockin Johnny remained in Chicago, quickly becoming a well-known guitar ace in the Chicago blues scene, a Delmark recording artist, and playing with Sam Lay, Jimmy Burns, Mary Lane, and countless others.