Seth Walker
Pacific Blues
Walker’s a fantastic guitar player who also can write a good blues song in any of the genre’s subcategories, including jump, country, delta, R&B and soul.
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The Wynn Brothers Band
Feel the Good
Self-released
Thomas and Jordan Wynn (rhythm and bass guitar, respectively) come from Southern rock stock: Their drummer/dad, Tom, was on the first album by Capricorn recording artists Cowboy, and before that he was in Florida garage rockers We the People with Cowboy comrade Tommy Talton.
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The Paul Thorn Band
So Far So Good
Perpetual Obscurity
Thorn’s a songwriter, not a fighter.
The former pugilist traded in his boxing gloves more than 10 years ago after going so far as to fight Roberto Duran on national TV, opting instead to make music. Hailing from Tupelo, Miss., he has a blues-gospel viewpoint that informs his country-rock-R&B output.
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Greg Laswell
Through Toledo
Vanguard
Who is this guy? Where did he come from? Did he really write, arrange and perform all these great songs himself, playing virtually every note on the album?
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William Lee Ellis
God’s Tattoos
Yellow Dog
The godson of Bill Monroe (father Tony Ellis played banjo for the Blue Grass Boys), Ellis is a classically trained guitarist who gave up his job as pop music critic for The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal so he could pursue a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology — and, of course, make new-millennium blues gospel records.
