Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City


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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City
111 3rd Street
Sioux City, Iowa 51101

Rock Shop (Box Office) Hours:

Sunday-Thursday: 9am-9pm
Friday-Saturday: 9am-Midnight

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Rock Shop: 712-224-7659
24/7 Phone Line: 844-222-7625
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Bernard Allison

Bernard Allison

As a true "son of the blues," Bernard Allison possesses the requisite guitar feel and vocal intonations necessary to push his blues into the next century. He knows the energy level necessary to hold audiences and combines enough showmanship and spontaneity to push the performance in fresh, innovative directions each night. 

If there ever was a CD for all occasions, this is it. It's got the chill songs to curl up with on a rainy day, or the thrill music you'll blas when you're driving late at night. By adding the rhythm guitar of Bernard's guitar soul mate, Eric Gales, every song explodes into a guitar player's head trip. The title cut opens the recor with Bernard's trademark funk meets blues sound. That signature sound permeates other tunes like "Compromising for Your Need," "Heart of St. Paul," and "Groove with Me," Bernard's treatise on the moderneque blues he'll continue to play around the world. But Bernard's got so much more. On "So Devine" Bruce McCabe's piano and Jose James' alto sax steals the show. On "Just Me and My Guitar," Bernard shows off the frantic slide techniques he learned in the 1980's form Johnny Winter. For slow blues, Bernar and pianist Rusty Hall turn in a first rate guitar and piano performance on "That's Why I'm Crying." But any fan of Bernard Allison knows that every show or record comes with one of his father's songs. Here, Bernad reprises Luther's 1980's tune "Serious," played with Bernard's eerie, Luther-like vocal attack. In additinoa, Bernard strips "Serious" down to just piano and guitar in his after-hours styled closer. 

Amid all the daily pop culture pressures to be the next American Idol, why does Bernard stay rooted in the blues? "The blues is my roots. Regardless of how far outside of the blues I reach for tones, I can't ever leave the blues. Whenever I play, all those guitar parts are Luther Allison coming through me. My dad was the same way, he wasn't all blues. He loved Otis Redding or Chuck Berry. I'm just showing where my influences come from. And respecting the people who got me to this point."

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