Saturday, April 23, 2016

Doktu Rhute Muuzic - Blues Cruise: The Root Doctor's Back!

Released: 2016
Size: 105.4 MB
Time: 45:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Jazzy Blues
Art: Front

1. Root Doctor's Back (feat. Latrice Wysinger Muuzic) [5:18]
2. Smart Phone (feat. Latrice Wysinger Muuzic) [3:30]
3. Me and My Wife [3:56]
4. Yankin' my Chain [6:04]
5. Steppin' [4:00]
6. Tip Jar [4:19]
7. Blues Cruise (feat. Sax Preacher) [5:52]
8. Going to My Baby's House [3:48]
9. Everybody Affair [5:00]
10. One Wing [4:03]

Doktu Rhute Muuzic was born Roy Hytower in Coffeeville, AL.

Doktu’s father was an herb doctor, with people coming to him from all over to be healed from various ailments.

Doktu’s new middle name, “Rhute” is a tribute to his father, and a play on both his name, Reuben Hytower, and his profession as a root doctor.

Doktu was inspired to play guitar by his father, a guitar player himself.

Doktu liked the guitar so much he traded a new bicycle for one. He escaped punishment when an older brother convinced their father that a young Roy must really have a desire to play if he was willing to risk his father’s disapproval.

Doktu had many influences in his life from giants in the blues and R&B world, and became the opening acts for many of them. Since he was a teenager at the time, many established acts were wary of raw and unproven talent. Doktu, through his older brothers, and family friendships with some of those acts’ booking agents, was given several important opportunities. His style and play would later gain their confidence, and he became well-known and successful as an opening act.

In the 1960’s, after a stint in the Army as a machine gunner, Doktu settled in Chicago and came back to music, eventually replacing rhythm guitarist Mighty Joe Young when Young left Otis Rush’s band.

Since then, Doktu Rhute Muuzic has not only performed musically, but has acted in plays with the Black Ensemble Theater, appeared in television and film, and has toured throughout North America and Europe.

Doktu took part in program sponsored by Pepsi promoting blues to elementary school children named “Blues in the Schools.”

When Doktu is not on tour, he performs locally, presents seminars with the Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation, and teaches guitar and harmonica.

Doktu Rhute Muuzic resides in the South Shore neighborhood in Chicago.

Blues Cruise: The Root Doctor's Back!

1 comment:

teddy cat baz said...

thanx tonka m8