WCLZ Presents Grammy Award winner:
Buddy Guy
Michael Williams Band
Wed, November 9, 2011
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm
State Theatre
Portland, ME
$45, 40 and $35 / Reserved Seating, all ages.
Tickets
This event is all ages
http://www.statetheatreportland.com/event/54303/Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy is one of the titans of the blues, straddling traditional and modern forms, as well as musical generations. He’s worked with Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf, on one hand, and Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones, on the other. There are few notable blues figures that Guy hasn’t brushed up against. He was even an influence on Jimi Hendrix.
The genre’s most electrifying guitarist, Guy has remained a vital and current musician, moving blues forward without losing sight of its roots. He’s renowned for his raw, blistering vocals and high-voltage guitar playing. His plays a Fender Stratocaster, employing feedback, distortion and extreme string-bending. He spent much of the Sixties on the venerable Chess label and thereafter recorded for Vanguard, Atco, Silvertone and others. Guy attained great stature within blues circles over the course of three decades, but his career broke wide open in 1991 with the release of Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues. This landmark release won him a Grammy and five W.C. Handy awards, and he recorded and toured prolifically in its wake.
Clapton has proclaimed Guy “by far without a doubt the best guitar player alive…He really changed the course of rock and roll blues.” Guy regards himself as a “caretaker of the blues.” Having learned from the likes of Waters, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim and Magic Sam, he explains, “I just take what they taught me and keep adding to it.”
The genre’s most electrifying guitarist, Guy has remained a vital and current musician, moving blues forward without losing sight of its roots. He’s renowned for his raw, blistering vocals and high-voltage guitar playing. His plays a Fender Stratocaster, employing feedback, distortion and extreme string-bending. He spent much of the Sixties on the venerable Chess label and thereafter recorded for Vanguard, Atco, Silvertone and others. Guy attained great stature within blues circles over the course of three decades, but his career broke wide open in 1991 with the release of Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues. This landmark release won him a Grammy and five W.C. Handy awards, and he recorded and toured prolifically in its wake.
Clapton has proclaimed Guy “by far without a doubt the best guitar player alive…He really changed the course of rock and roll blues.” Guy regards himself as a “caretaker of the blues.” Having learned from the likes of Waters, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim and Magic Sam, he explains, “I just take what they taught me and keep adding to it.”
Michael Williams Band
“Those who were there, including mimosa-drinking revelers rising from the boats, anchored by the festival grounds, were treated to a caffeinated jolt awake by the Michael Williams Band, a rocking Seattle blues quartet rooted in the music of Jimi Hendrix”. Kyle O’Brien – The Oregonian.
Michael Williams, born in Houston, TX -- and son of the late Texas Blues Legend Junior Medlow Williams -- is one of the few guitarists today who can claim by legacy to be born in the blues. Michael draws upon the influences of Junior Medlow, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the other blues-guitar legends like Muddy Waters, Albert King, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Jimi Hendrix. Yet he has blended his own, rich signature-tone through a mastery of traditional blues, a dynamic voice, soulful songwriting, blistering licks, and very intense performance energy. Michael’s father, Junior Medlow Williams, entertained audiences for over 20 years with a powerful voice and stage presence as the frontman for the Cobras (1978-84), The Bad Boys (1986-90), and Tornado Alley (1990-96).
After the passing of his father, Michael moved to Seattle to carry on his family legacy as well as to pay homage to one of his biggest influences; the great Jimi Hendrix. While there he formed the Michael Williams Band, and shortly thereafter, The Washington Blues Society nominated them as one of Seattle’s Best Unsigned Bands. The Band released their first album “King of the Dead” in 2008 on the independent record label, True Blue Productions, LLC. Michael’s had the opportunity to work with many accomplished musicians including his father, Junior Medlow and the Bad Boys, Willie Nelson, and Chris Duarte.
Eddie Kramer, the multi Grammy-award winning producer and engineer who is renowned for lifelong work with Jimi Hendrix’s music as well with several other Grammy-award winning blues legends, produced Michael’s newest album, Fire Red.
Michael Williams, born in Houston, TX -- and son of the late Texas Blues Legend Junior Medlow Williams -- is one of the few guitarists today who can claim by legacy to be born in the blues. Michael draws upon the influences of Junior Medlow, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the other blues-guitar legends like Muddy Waters, Albert King, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Jimi Hendrix. Yet he has blended his own, rich signature-tone through a mastery of traditional blues, a dynamic voice, soulful songwriting, blistering licks, and very intense performance energy. Michael’s father, Junior Medlow Williams, entertained audiences for over 20 years with a powerful voice and stage presence as the frontman for the Cobras (1978-84), The Bad Boys (1986-90), and Tornado Alley (1990-96).
After the passing of his father, Michael moved to Seattle to carry on his family legacy as well as to pay homage to one of his biggest influences; the great Jimi Hendrix. While there he formed the Michael Williams Band, and shortly thereafter, The Washington Blues Society nominated them as one of Seattle’s Best Unsigned Bands. The Band released their first album “King of the Dead” in 2008 on the independent record label, True Blue Productions, LLC. Michael’s had the opportunity to work with many accomplished musicians including his father, Junior Medlow and the Bad Boys, Willie Nelson, and Chris Duarte.
Eddie Kramer, the multi Grammy-award winning producer and engineer who is renowned for lifelong work with Jimi Hendrix’s music as well with several other Grammy-award winning blues legends, produced Michael’s newest album, Fire Red.
Venue Information:
State Theatre
609 Congress St
Portland, ME, 04101
http://www.statetheatreportland.com/
State Theatre
609 Congress St
Portland, ME, 04101
http://www.statetheatreportland.com/
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