# Concert in EU: The feeling is still in the fingers of this old hand, I do miss the harmonica with these kinds of songs – Photos

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- Published: 2025-01-30T21:42:19+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Wijk bij Duurstede has a very enthusiastic active blues association. In addition
to the festival, Blues in Wijk, where concerts take place in the various pubs of
the city, there are also regular concerts in the Calypso theater in the city.**

In addition to many national guests, the living legend of the Chicago blues John
Primer & The Little Boogie Boy Bluesband was a guest.

John has been booked by Bee Music Agency for years and this will be the last tour
of Rob Koning and John Primer. The question is whether John Primer will ever come
to the Netherlands again because he will be 80 years old in March. Partly because
of this I drove from Oss to Wijk bij Duurstede because it was more than 15 years
ago that I saw him.

The Calypso theater was filled to the last person and saw The Little Boogie Boy 
Bluesband start the set. Primer came on after 1 song. You can’t tell that he is 
almost 80. There is a fresh man who easily picks up a dropped pick from the ground
with his guitar around his neck.

[⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025 Wijk Bij Duurstede (15 van 32)⌉⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025
Wijk Bij Duurstede (15 van 32)⌉[

The show was not really surprising. John knows exactly what the audience wants, 
old classics.

Primer has a good voice for his performance. I regularly listen to his concerts 
in Chicago on YouTube and I have heard him sing less. From the start with, among
other things, a 7-minute “Hoochie Coochie Man” with wonderful solos, it was a big
party until the break.

[⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025 Wijk Bij Duurstede (9 van 32)⌉⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025
Wijk Bij Duurstede (9 van 32)⌉[

Nice change with a wonderful slow version of “Rainy night in Georgia” that was concluded
with a fantastic solo.

The feeling is still in the fingers of this old hand. The first hour flew by. At
the beginning of the break, Primer chatted quietly with the audience before going
to the dressing room for a well-deserved rest.

[⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025 Wijk Bij Duurstede (31 van 32)⌉⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025
Wijk Bij Duurstede (31 van 32)⌉[

The Little Boogie Boy Bluesband started the second set with 1 song again but the
great master quickly came back on. The usual audience participation did not go completely
as it should.

The audience did not know the lyrics of “Since I met you baby”, but Primer solved
this professionally, which is a laugh. After “Same old blues” and a wonderful “Mustang
Sally” came the killer song of the evening for me “Imagine”.

The audience thought it was fantastic but as a blues purist I would have preferred
to hear a Magic Slim song from his latest album “Slow Blues”. Fortunately “Every
day i have the blues” followed quickly.

Primer played without a setlist and after a request for “Little red rooster” he 
played the song after several rooster jokes with his legs and guitar. As an encore,
of course, a Muddy Waters song followed, “Got my mojo working”. I have to say honestly
that I do miss the harmonica with these kinds of songs.

[⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025 Wijk Bij Duurstede (21 van 32)⌉⌊John Primer 24 jan 2025
Wijk Bij Duurstede (21 van 32)⌉[

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