Lil’ Red & The Rooster are a sassy, smokin’, bone tremblin’, slow-burn Blues balm, that will sooth what’s aching and leave you feelin’ good. Backed by a deep in the pocket rhythm section, they'll inspire you to rise-up and shake a tail feather!
A deep calling lead them both to the Blues, and the Blues brought them together in 2010. For over a decade Jen “Lil’ Red” Milligan and Pascal Fouquet have been fine tuning their style and living and breathing their music. Decades of knowledge and experience ring through Pascal’s tasteful touch and the sparkle in Red’s sassy smile. Retro modern blues, is how they describe this style, it’s constantly evolving as the artists themselves, but the roots remain in the Blues. Their songs are as diverse as the many different styles of Blues because the couple finds all of them intriguing. Onstage they’re intimately real and at times hilarious. They exude a contagious charm that guarantees you’ll feel good no matter how haunting the song or biting the message. It all comes from a place of love and respect for the Blues and humanity. They both know the power of its healing and want to share it.
In 2018, they self-released their album, Soul Burnin’, produced by and featuring Dave Specter recorded in Chicago by Blaise Barton at JoyRide Studio. In 2019, they and their album were finalists in the International Blues Challenge and in 2022, they self-produced their second album, Keep On!, on Blue Heart Records again at Joy Ride Studio with Felton Crews and Kenny “Beedyeyes” Smith and featuring Billy Branch. For them, it’s all about the music, it’s all about the groove, it’s all about the Blues.
Why Lil’ Red & The Rooster? They were listening to their friend Ricky Nye playing the Willie Dixon song Lil’ Red Rooster and light bulb moment! The Rooster is the emblem of France and Lil’ Red’s grandpa, “Hey Pop Moreland” was known as Red and she carried on the tradition. Et Voila, Lil’ Red & The Rooster.
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