RONNIE BAKER BROOKS

The guitarist son of bluesman Lonnie Brooks plays soul-inflected Chicago blues. As the son of legendary Chicago blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks carries on the family tradition -- one that's also kept alive by his brother Wayne Baker Brooks. Ronnie picked up the guitar early and wound up playing bass in his father's touring band, but he didn't launch a solo recording career until 1998, when he released Golddigger just after his 30th birthday. Brooks was born Rodney Dion Baker in Chicago, Illinois on January 23, 1967. He made his first on-stage appearance with his father Lonnie at the age of nine, but he stayed in school, graduating from Hales Franciscan High School in 1985. The next year, Ronnie joined Lonnie's band playing bass, but moved to guitar by the time of the 1988 live album Live from Chicago: Bayou Lightning Strikes. Over the next ten years, Brooks toured read more...