Get your down-and-dirty slide guitar blues fix with Atlanta-based musician Tinsley Ellis. Ellis, known for decades as one of the greatest electric blues-rock guitarists of his generation, is now also recognized as one of the best contemporary acoustic blues guitarists, songwriters, and performers in the world.
- Tinsley Ellis’s style of blues is edgy, gritty, foot-stompin' southern blues.
- Ellis’s main influences are Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf. When he was a teenager, Ellis received a broken guitar string from B.B. King that he has to this day.
- Rolling Stone describes Tinsley Ellis’s career as “feral blues guitar…non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor’s edge…his eloquence dazzles…he achieves pyrotechnics that rival Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.”
