When Bernard Allison started playing blues guitar, he found himself in a familial atmosphere. “Back then, the blues field was especially tight-knit,” he tells Guitar World. “It was different from the battles you hear about from when my dad grew up, with the west side versus the south side.”
He’d been playing for two years before his guitar legend father, Luther Allison, found out he’d even picked up an instrument. Along with family friends Albert King, Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Luther encouraged Bernard to be himself.
