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In the city of Chicago there are two endangered species: Chicago Blues and Piano Blues. A tourist arriving at a “blooz bar” is never going to find a piano soloist. They’re likely to hear Rock and maybe Blues Rock instead of Chicago Blues. Instead of a lead-sharing, grooving ensemble, they’ll probably hear just one ponderous guitar solo after another.

Enter Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, endangered but still deadly at both of those increasing rarities. While steadily gigging around Chicago, Chuck has released his second album of 2006. Got My Eyes On You is from May and June studio sessions as opposed to 25 Years of Chicago Blues Piano Volume 2 which mined Goering’s voluminous vaults of golden studio sessions from the last 25 years.
Born in Ohio in 1958, Barrelhouse Chuck was living in Florida when he heard his first Muddy Waters record with Otis Spann on piano. Realizing he needed to immerse himself in blues piano, he decided to go directly to the source. In 1979 he drove 24 hours straight from Florida to Chicago and went directly to B.L.U.E.S on Halsted specifically to see Sunnyland Slim. Goering spent the next 10 years studying with Sunnyland, whom Chuck calls “the great-granddaddy of all the blues piano players.” Barrelhouse Chuck is a living legacy. One of the few Chicago blues pianists to have studied under Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Lafayette Leake and Little Brother Montgomery, Barrelhouse Chuck draws on this distinguished lineage to create a blues, boogie-woogie and barrelhouse piano style that places him among blues piano’s contemporary elite.


1. Floyd's Blues
2. Call My Job
3. Got My Eyes On You
4. Mother Earth
5. Cleo's Mood
6. It's You Baby
7. School Days
8. The Bright Sounds of Big Moose
9. Just To Be with You
10. Big Town Playboy
11. Red River Rumba
12. Mama You Don't Mean Me No Good
13. Iza Mae

Audio CD (August 1, 2006)
Original Release Date: August 1, 2006
Number of Discs: 1
Label: The Sirens Records

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