SELWYN BIRCHWOOD AND GUITAR SHORTY TO APPEAR IN SELLERSVILLE! ( II )
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014
Venue: Sellersville Theater
Address: 24 West Temple Avenue
City: Sellersville, PA
Phone: 215-257-5808
Showtime: 8:00pm
Alligator Records’ recording artists, Selwyn Birchwood and Guitar Shorty, will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Thursday, August 21, 2014.
SELWYN BIRCHWOOD
"Birchwood is a young, powerhouse guitarist and soulful vocalist. Don’t Call No Ambulance is a remarkable debut by a major player. A damn fine listen through and through. Highly recommended." --Rolling Stone
"A master storyteller and high-energy, raw blues guitarist…knife-edged leads, roadhouse-rattling grooves." --Living Blues
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Filmed at North Atlantic Blues Festival Rockland Maine by Real Media Solutions aka Juke Joint Video , Portland Maine edited by Richard Pelletier
Florida's rising blues star, Selwyn Birchwood, the winner (in a field of over 125 other bands) of the 2013 International Blues Challenge (IBC), is celebrating the release of his Alligator Records debut, Don't Call No Ambulance.
Birchwood is a guitar and lap-steel-playing bundle of pure energy who delivers his original songs with a revival tent preacher's fervor and a natural storyteller's charisma. He plays high-octane blues -- at once deeply rooted, funky and up-to-the-minute -- with true passion and honest emotion.
With his band feeding off his drive and exuberance, the striking 6’3” 29-year-old with his trademark Afro roams the stage (often barefoot), singing his original songs and ripping out memorable guitar licks with ease. His ability to win over an audience—any audience—is proven night after night on the bandstand. With his warm, magnetic personality, Birchwood is as down-to-earth as his music is fun, thought-provoking and vital. His mission is to spread his music far and wide, to share his joy, to play his heart out, and to push the blues into the future.
The Selwyn Birchwood Band had been touring hard even before winning the IBC in 2013. They’ve built a large and loyal regional following one gig at a time, including multiple appearances at Florida’s Springing The Blues Festival. They’ve also performed at The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, The North Atlantic Blues Festival and The King Biscuit Blues Festival, among others. Birchwood and his band have opened for major blues stars including Robert Cray and Buddy Guy and have shared the stage with another friend and teacher, Joe Louis Walker (who guests on Don't Call No Ambulance).
After his International Blues Challenge 2013 victory (plus also taking home the Albert King Guitarist Of The Year Award at the same event), it wasn’t long before Birchwood was offered a recording contract by Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer. His debut album, Don't Call No Ambulance, is a fully realized vision of contemporary blues. Birchwood’s original songs range from raucous romps to hill country stomps, from searing, serious slow blues to modern blues rock. Between his uninhibited sense of fun and adventure and his serious-as-a-heart-attack musicianship, Don't Call No Ambulance is a window into the future of the blues.
GUITAR SHORTY
"Blistering, modern blues-rock, bristles with galvanizing guitar and forceful vocals." --Billboard
This is Guitar Shorty Performing Live on the Main Stage at the Dutch Mason Blues Festival, in Truro, Nova Scotia. This video was recorded on Saturday, August 10, 2013
Guitar Shorty will be performing songs from his latest Alligator Records release, Bare Knuckle. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live shows and his incendiary recordings (beginning in 1957 with a Willie Dixon-produced single on the Cobra label).
Bare Knuckle, produced by famed songwriter and bassist Wyzard (a member of Mother's Finest who has toured with Stevie Nicks and others), burns with heavy blues-rock fir e from start to finish, putting Shorty's infectious energy and guitar pyrotechnics on full display. GuitarOne declares, "Be prepared for a mighty surprise if you have never heard Guitar Shorty rip…lethal licks and heavyweight blues-rock grooves."
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