Little Victor

The career of singer/songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player Little Victor (born Victor Macoggi) started at the tender age of 14 and included a blues apprenticeship via a club residency with Uncle Ben Perry on Memphis' legendary Beale Street. After recording demos with <a href="spotify:artist:7CW5MYWUsyUYiHbiTmVZHe">Alex Chilton</a> and then with <a href="spotify:artist:0Wxy5Qka8BN9crcFkiAxSR">Howlin' Wolf</a>'s guitarist, <a href="spotify:artist:3Dogy4uGWEG13OyOJmw3R9">Hubert Sumlin</a>, the dapper-dressed Victor released his debut long-player in 1994, Cuttin' Out. This was followed by Space Shuttle two years later and involvement in a French documentary on <a href="spotify:artist:2drMeidRg4jc07neGOL0Ip">R.L Burnside</a>, Un Jour Avec...R.L. Burnside (1999), with blues chanteuse <a href="spotify:artist:3FgmyitBaOL69yeF3FRWCq">Sophie Kay</a>, a collaboration that also yielded a couple of albums.

The "King of Grit" continued to issue acclaimed releases of old-school juke joint R&B in the 2000s, before hooking up with the late blues legend (and childhood hero) <a href="spotify:artist:1gAPH1IQmAFW28AYz1nyE9">Louisiana Red</a>. The pair issued the award-winning Back to the Black Bayou in 2009, repeating the success with Memphis Mojo a couple of years later. In between, Little Victor released Boogie All Night (on the Barcelona-based <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22El+Toro%22">El Toro</a> label), featuring blues harp maestro <a href="spotify:artist:0I1ooxdREQHLoUphm6uihH">Bob Corritore</a>. In 2013 Victor guested on a couple of tracks on Spanish bluesmen Pig Fat's Shadow of the Night album. ~ Matthew Garbutt, Rovi