Big Pete Pearson - The Screamer (2009)





[3:48] 1. I Don't Know You
[4:06] 2. Come and Get It
[6:00] 3. The Screamer
[5:39] 4. Blues Bailout
[4:00] 5. Honey Bone
[3:28] 6. Paycheck
[3:51] 7. Trustworthy Woman
[4:54] 8. Boink With You
[3:47] 9. Pledging My Love
[4:15] 10. Millionaire


Born in Jamaica in 1936, Pete Pearson grew up in Texas; he began his blues career in Austin in the ‘50s, often working alongside his younger cousin W.C. Clark. He has lived in Phoenix for over 50 years. Although that city has long boasted a lively local music scene, it’s hardly known worldwide as a blues nexus; perhaps for that reason. Pearson remains something of an ‘unknown treasure,’ at least in the States, despite the length and breadth of his career.
Don’t be put off by this disc’s title. Pearson can holler with the best of them, but his voice is a nuanced instrument, heavily influenced by jazzy blues shouters like Jimmy Rushing as well as postwar sophisticates such as B.b. King and T-Bone Walker. His 70-plus-year-old vocal chords have stiff-
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