Burnin'
Ron Hacker, slide guitar master, and staple of the San Francisco and Bay Area blues scene brings us his strongest album,Burnin', featuring a mixture of lesser known blues standards, and heartfelt and scorching originals. From start to finish, the album burns through blues conventions with smokin' guitar work and a stellar backing band. Waiting until the age of 27 to take up the guitar, Ron gained his influences from artists like Fred McDowell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, and Yank Rachell, along with usual suspect Robert Johnson and his most modern influence, R.L. Burnside.Burnin'features many of Ron's favorite songs, including many songs he's been playing since the beginning of his career, and originals that take you through Ron Hacker's life story.  Ron's approach to blues is similar to that of artists from the blues classic era, playing old-time blues, rough and raw.