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The Empire Burlesque Interviews #3: Jon Paris

Magazine ad for ‘Empire Burlesque’ 1985

Our Empire Burlesque anniversary series continues today with bassist Jon Paris. Paris is perhaps best known for his decade playing with Johnny Winter in the '70s and '80s (including some scorching live performances of “Highway 61 Revisited”), as well as touring with Robert Gordon & Link Wray, Bo Diddley, and more. But in 1985, he spent time in the studio with Bob Dylan recording Empire Burlesque

As with Ira Ingber a few days ago, one of Paris’s tracks got used on Empire Burlesque (“Clean Cut Kid”), a second appeared on Knocked Out Loaded(“Driftin’ Too Far from Shore”), and more surfaced on the Springtime in New York box set.

'80s promo shot courtesy of Jon Paris

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