Pistol Pete’s Food ‘n’ Blues plays host to one of Australia’s blues legends when it welcomes Sydney’s Continental Robert Susz on Saturday night.
Continental Robert is best known for his work on vocals and harmonica as frontman of iconic Aussie blues bands the Dynamic Hepnotics and the Mighty Reapers.
The Continental Robert Blues Party will be rounded out by well known Melbourne musicians Andy Baylor on guitar, bassist Pete ‘Boom Boom’ Beulke and Ronnie Ferella on drums.
The Blues Party convenes for a series of Victorian gigs throughout December, with Saturday night’s performance the third of six shows.
The mini-tour will be the first time in over four years that Continental Robert has made the trek to Victoria, and he remembers Pistol Pete’s fondly from that last visit.
“Pistol Pete’s was great last time I was down; Pete (Raimondo) is a good guy,” Susz said.
“I’m really looking forward to it. It’ll be some good-time, down in the alley, barroom blues with some down-home soul mixed in.
In addition to Continental Robert’s bluesy, funky originals, the band will be drawing on the songbook of classic blues artists such as Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo and Sonny Boy Williamson, as soul numbers such as Clarence Carter’s Slip Away.
Continental Robert said he and the band intended to make the gig a celebration of good times.
“Hopefully we get enough people in for a party; we’ll make it a party,” he said.
“We’ll do everything to try to make you feel good, that’s the aim.”
The Continental Robert Blues Party kicks off at 9.30pm Saturday, December 10.
