Larry Burton

Larry Burton Larry's blues are as real as you can get. He was born in Coldwater, Mississippi in 1951, lived briefly in Memphis before coming to Chicago in 1956, where he grew up on the West Side and listened to Big Bill Hill's pioneering blues radio show. He started playing bass, then guitar with a group of high school buddies that included Tony Llorens, later the producer of several Albert King album; in fact, everybody in the group wound up working with Albert at one time or another.

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