We love this live video of Mike Zito and Bernard Allison filmed by Rapha El “Mama Don’t Like No Wah Wah” Live. Performed on the Blues Caravan 2018 put on by Ruf Records.
Just watch these two blues masters ripping it up on guitars and having the best time playing together.
“Mama Don’t Like No Wah Wah,” written by Mike Zito and Bernard Allison, is on Mike Zito’s latest record, First Class Life. According to Mike Zito (see our interview of him here ) “The best part of the story is that Bernard is 19, and his first gig out of high school is playing with Koko Taylor. It’s also 1988 and guitars are advancing in terms of technology….So you have this young dude (Bernard Allison) playing guitar who is into all this modern stuff…He gets this gig playing with this straight, old school, artist that says, “Turn that off, I don’t want to hear it.” For months, he plays rhythm guitar, stands in the back, just does his job. Time goes by and he decides he would try to see if he can sneak something on stage. Koko doesn’t know what anything is called, it’s all a wah wah to her, but she picks it right up and said you have to turn that off, Mama don’t like no wah wah. I’ve been waiting forever for a story like that and I told Bernard “that’s a song” and we both wrote it. Everyone needs to hear that story, that’s blues history.”
Mike Zito, blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter is well known as a solo artist and for his work with the Royal Southern Brotherhood. First Class Life is his 15th album, out this year. Bernard Allison, blues, rock, funk guitarist, singer, songwriter, is the son of Luther Allison. Let It Go is his 15th album, out this year. Both musicians are outstanding as are their respective albums.
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