Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get the latest on the news, things to do and places to eat delivered right to your inbox.We could go on, but the point is made: Big George Brock was one of the greatest blues artists this city has ever seen, and he will be missed tremendously. He worked as a bodybuilding promoter in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In the 1990s, he immigrated to the United States to attend Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, graduating in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in sports information communication. He specializes in a raucous, electrified blend of guitars, harmonica and drums that evokes both Mississippi juke joints and big-city barrooms, all topped off by his commanding vocals and scalding harmonica licks. Tsoukalos was born in Switzerland in 1978, where he attended boarding school. One of a dwindling number of bluesmen of his generation still working, Brock occupies his own niche, with a sound both rougher and more idiosyncratic than such great Chicago bands as Muddy Waters, but more polished than the minimalist juke-joint combos still found in the deep South.Īs a musician, Brock is also a man of substance, for his blues are as authentic as you'll find anywhere. Louis for most of his adult life, that's where Big George Brock is from, and the sounds of his home state still resonate in every note he sings and plays. Louis, Chicago, Memphis or somewhere else, the path of the blues inevitably seems to lead back to a starting point in Mississippi. In 2011 we published this tribute to the man's talents: Also known for his charismatic stage personality and the sartorial splendor of his brightly-colored, suit-with-matching-hat outfits, Brock is a vital example of the continued potency of down-home blues. Tsoukalos is the publisher of Legendary Times Magazine, a magazine occupied with searching for evidence to support ancient aliens, and has long been the Director of Erich von Däniken ’s Center for Ancient Astronaut Research (Tsoukalos is also Erich von Däniken’s official representative in the United States and the rest of the English. Louis, Brock's sound remains connected to his Mississippi roots, with driving beats and raucous guitars that conjure up the joyous chaos of a packed juke joint on Saturday night. While he's spent more than half a century in St. He was also dubbed "Best Blues Artist" by this publication more times than we can count, often alongside his band, the Houserockers. Known for his flashy attire, one of Brock's stage outfits is even on display there.īrock continued to perform regularly at venues across town, even playing a party for his own 87th birthday at the Ambassador just last year. More recently, he was a part of the effort that brought to life the National Blues Museum downtown, and in 2017 he was honored with a special concert at the museum. Louis, Brock ran the popular Club Caravan nightclub near North Garrison and Franklin Avenue for eighteen years in the '50s and '60s.
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