​Albert White (from the album The Definitive Albert White

​Albert White (from the album The Definitive Albert White

​Albert White (from the album The Definitive Albert White is available on Music Maker Foundation Records)
Born in Atlanta, Georgia (1942), Albert White began studying the guitar from his uncle, Piano Red. Red saw promise in his nephew, who was developing his own chords by age nine years-old. He sent the young guitarist to study with his band’s primary guitarist, Wesley Jackson. Albert White progressed quickly, and Piano Red invited the young man to join his band in the late 1950’s. He became the bandleader, along with the remnants of Piano Red’s players, for Dr. Feelgood & The Interns in 1962. When the group disbanded in 1962 Albert White joined The Tams, playing with them from the late 1960’s through the early 1970’s. He played with Hank Ballard & The Midniters later in the decade. Performing in Southeast USA juke joints, roadhouses, and night clubs, Albert White was backed by his own band, The Rockers.  During the 1970’s Albert White and The Rockers were recorded at two live shows, the albums finally coming to the music marketplace in 2016 via Music Maker Foundation. The label was on board for 2007’s Soul of the Blues, which featured Steve Cropper, Elvin Bishop, and Beverly Watkins. 
Music Maker Foundation has brought Albert White forward to 2025 with the release of The Definitive Albert Brooks. The album does double-duty as it celebrates Albert’s 70-year career in the music business, and his thirtieth anniversary of working with the Music Maker Foundation label. Produced by Jimbo Mathus (solo, Squirrel Nut Zippers) who shared that ‘Albert had all these arrangements in his head, and we just did them. He’s so focused and positive, exuberant. The goal was just to put him in the spotlight, man. This is his definitive statement’. Many songs will be familiar on the album when Albert White includes cuts he co-wrote. He offers a take on his former bandmates Hank Ballard & The Midniters “Let’s Go” while he turns on the flashlight beam, playing a track made for a spotlight dance, with “What Am I Living For?” and re-introduces The Impressions “Gypsy Woman”, which he co-wrote with Curtis Mayfield. The Definitive Albert White takes a spin on the dance floor with “Time’s Getting Tougher”, puts down a killer groove to ride underneath “Little Mixed Up”, taps its toe for “Tore Down”, and brings 1970’s Funk back for “Feels Like Breaking”. It’s a Dirty Dancing moment when Albert White adds more co-writes with Roosevelt Sykes’ “Drivin’ Wheel” and stays true to the original performing his co-write with Rev. Al Green of “Let’ Stay Together”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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