JOHN PRIMER
Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 97204 Portland Kort
lau. 01.08.2026 20:00
John PrimerJLR Seating Map Notes: For this show, you may reserve individual tables on the map pictured. Note that some tables have limited sightlines as noted. General Admission ticket holders note that seating and sightlines are limted and may be standing room only. All table reservations include admission.Instructions: For Table Reservations: Note the relative location of the stage and bar on the map. Then click a table number to see prices, or click Show All Tickets. Click the + button to add a specific table to your cart. For General Admission tickets: click the GA Standing area. Click the + button to add additional tickets.Click Agree JOHN PRIMERBorn on the M.C. Mansell Plantation in Camden, MS on sharecropper land, John Primer migrated to Chicago in 1963 with a dream of performing on stage with Muddy Waters.He got his start on Chicagos famous Maxwell Street playing for tips with Pat Rushings band, then getting hired at the famous Theresas Lounge as the house band rhythm guitarist for the great Junior Wells with Sammy Lawhorn. He was taught by all the legendary bluesmen.From there he was noticed by Willie Dixon. After going on tour with Willie, Muddy Waters noticed him and took John as his bandleader fulfilling his lifelong dream! After Muddys untimely death John went to work with Magic Slim as a Teardrop for the next 13 years.He was signed by Atlantic Records in 1995 and went out independently with his own Real Deal Blues Band. He has over 95 recordings and several on his own Blues House Productions record label. He currently tours with his own band all over the world. He is truly one of the very last real deal, traditional, bluesmen alive today!John Primer is a Blues Hall of Fame Artist with 3 Grammy Award Nominations. He won numerous awards including 3 Lifetime Achievement Awards, 5 Blues Music Awards, 3 for Traditional Blues Artist and for 2 Traditional Blues Albums of the Year and a Jus Blues Award for being a Blues Icon.For more information about John Primer visit: JohnPrimerBlues.com Special Note: Ticket holders for this show receive free admission to Jack Londons Burly Q Revue Cabaret after the music!
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John PrimerJOHN PRIMER
“THE REAL DEAL”
Early inspiration came from his family steeped in spiritual, gospel, blues and R&B tradition. As a young boy John’s mother knew he would be a singer, “he came out singing” she would say. John first appeared on stage at the local Baptist church, in his hometown of Camden Mississippi. John was raised with blues records being played by his grandmother. He dreamed of one day playing his guitar on stage with his idol Muddy Water's.
At the age of eighteen John followed the path of his mentors and migrated to Chicago in the fall of 1963. Once in Chicago, John quickly found the blues musicians and formed a band. After the success of his first band The Maintainers, in 1974 John replaced John Watkins in the house band at the world famous Theresa’s Lounge on the South Side of Chicago. Over the course of the next 7 years, John would play with such originators as Sammy Lawhorn, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Buddy Guy, and Lonnie Brooks, all innovators sculpting the sound of Chicago Blues.
Then in 1979, master songwriter and bassist Willie Dixon invited him to join his band The Chicago All Stars. Traveling through the US, Mexico and Europe, John developed his skills as a rhythm guitarist, a lead-guitar, slide player, and a powerful singer. Another blues master who believed in John Primer was none other than the “Hoochie Coochie Man” himself, Muddy Waters. Muddy recruited John not only as a guitarist, but also as an opening act and bandleader. John stayed loyal to Muddy until his untimely death in 1983.
Fresh off the heels of his success with the Muddy Waters Band, John signed on with the legendary Magic Slim. For the next 14 years, he toured with Magic Slim & The Teardrops, bringing tight, house rocking sounds to every corner of the planet. While John was the bandleader of Magic Slim & The Teardrops, they were voted the best blues band in the world year after year and are still today thought of as the inventors of “the lump”, a style of playing backup rhythm.
In 1995 the veteran blues man released his major label debut “The Real Deal”, on Atlantic Records. Deciding to make it out on his own, he began touring extensively in support of his fourteen solo albums to date, including two CD’s on Blues House Productions, John’s independent record label. John has recorded on several other record labels including: Wolf, Earwig, Telarc, Atlantic, Delta Groove and Raisin Music. He is a songwriter, producer and has taught many other blues musicians.
John Primer has been awarded many awards. He was given 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2013 for Keeping the Blues Alive from the Pennsylvania Blues Society as well as from the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, he has been nominated for a Grammy Award by the Recording Academy in 2010 for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year, and has been given many nominations year after year by the National Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards for the Best Traditional Blues of the Year as well as Best Traditional Blues Musician of the Year. John is one of the last Legendary Traditional Blues Musicians alive today with his roots in Mississippi. He is a living legend and a true master of the blues!