Ronnie Baker Brooks

1245 Chicago Avenue,Evanston IL 60202

26 November, 2021

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Ronnie Baker Brooks ALL AGES Ronnie Baker Brooks Ronnie Baker Brooks at SPACE in Evanston, IL // Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm // Tickets: $20– $50 COVID-19 PolicyAll attendees, staff, and artists are required to provide proof of full vaccination (2 weeks from the final dose) in order to enter the venue. This policy is in effect until further notice for all shows and events at SPACE. Please consult evanstonspace.com for the most up-to-date information and policies on masks and COVID safety inside the venue. Regardless of vaccination status, all guests, artists, and staff will be required to wear a mask over their nose and mouth while inside the venue. Masks will be available at the box office for those who arrive without one. GENRE: Blues ABOUT THE ARTIST Brooks, 49, likes to treat each album he makes as a platform for him to grow, but the reality is that he’s been climbing the blues world’s latter all his life. He was born in Chicago, and started playing guitar around age six. At 19, he joined his father, who by then had influenced some of the most well-known bluesman of our history: Jimmy Reed, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter, and Junior Wells. For 12 years the two would tour together, putting Ronnie out front with Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Koko Taylor. In 1998, when he was 32, his father told him to go solo. Baker already had a band by then, one he’d been touring on the side with since 1992. But by 1998 he’d started a label; that year he made his first album, Golddigger, 16 songs tracked out in two weeks. “My dad always said to keep writing, even if you don’t think the song sounds great or you can’t finish it,” says Baker. “Write. Continue to write. The more you write, the better you get.” Take Me Witcha came three years later; his second album on Watchdog Records. Brooks broke out as his own champion on 2006’s The Torch. The Boston Herald called it “ferocious and unrelenting … the year’s best blues album.” ARTIST WEBSITE Ronnie Baker Brooks SPACE is a live music hall in Evanston, Ill., established in 2008.