An Unforgettable Night With Robert Finley Red Rooster Festival 2024 Thursday 30th May 2024 “Let me take a few seconds to tell you / What is important to me / It is so important to me that / Each and every one of you Is here / Because without you / I cannot do / What I do!” With that very personal, personable introduction, the seventy-year old, son of sharecroppers made himself very welcome to the packed tent. He then turned in a tremendous performance that was still the talk of the festival two days later. Those turning up on the Friday had heard about it too and had a bad case of missing out blues. Mr Finley has a lot of patter, which random as it may feel initially, always turns very neatly into the start of the next number. He is a natural-born story-teller, which makes his rocky blues so attractive. Backed by the vocals of his eldest daughter Chrissy Johnson and a powerful band, Robert Finley gave a cracking demonstration of what gett...
