E.G.KIGHT

  

Influenced by the powerful vocals of Koko Taylor, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter EG Kight transitioned from performing as a country singer to touring as a full-fledged blues/roots artist. And with her rich vocals, well-crafted songs, and inimitable sense of humor, she has since entertained on stages around the world.

Kight has emerged as a preeminent voice in roots music, receiving various music industry nominations, including six for Female Artist of the Year, three for Song of the Year, and one for Album of the Year. Through the years Kight has developed a sound that transcends musical boundaries, with a unique blend of blues, country, americana, southern rock, jazz, gospel, and funk. Her music appeals to the masses, no matter their taste, and she has brought her diverse musical menu to various clubs, theaters, festivals, and corporate events, even appearing on such mainstays as Nashville Now and NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Kight lives on land in Dublin, Georgia that’s been in her family for four generations, and her roots go deep. Early in her career she was dubbed “The Georgia Songbird.” With a rich and velvety voice that’s a cross between Phoebe Snow, Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna, and Patsy Cline, Kight performs as a solo, an acoustic trio, and with a band, and has worked shows with artists across the genres, including Gregg Allman, Phoebe Snow, Merle Haggard, Koko Taylor, Little Feat, Lee Roy Parnell, B.B. King, and Delbert McClinton.

A notable songwriter, many artists have recorded Kight’s songs, including Koko Taylor and Dorothy Moore. Several songs ended up on Grammy-nominated albums, and on the Children’s Miracle Network, Nick at Nite, ABC Family, the El Ray Network, and in November 2017 on NBC’s “Chicago PD.” And she placed five songs in a movie that’s available on Amazon Prime.

Her latest album, A New Day, debuted at #9 on the Living Blues Chart, and infuses her “country-flavored southern-fried blues” with a little gospel to create her most inspiring venture to date. According to Living Blues Magazine, it is “a testimony to the healing power of music.”

Georgia Music Magazine writes that Kight is “a gentle and elegant woman who manages to channel Southern charm, sophistication and a fierce passion for the blues into one tremendously intoxicating voice.”

Whether on stage in front of a live audience, in her office writing songs, or in the studio recording songs for her next album, Kight is at home with her music. It’s who she is. It’s what she does. It’s what she loves.

             

E.G. Kight (born January 17, 1966) is an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. She has worked with many musicians, including George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, Luther Allison, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Taj Mahal, B.B. King, and Koko Taylor. Kight has recorded seven albums to date and received several nominations for Blues Music Awards, in the categories Contemporary Female Artist and Song of the Year.

Kight is billed as "The Georgia Songbird". Her main musical influence was Koko Taylor.

Eugenia Gail Kight was born in Dublin, Georgia. At the age of five her grandmother taught her to play the guitar. In her youth she watched Elvis Presley perform in Macon, Georgia.Initially raised on a musical diet of gospel and country music, she gravitated towards the blues after hearing a recording of Koko Taylor. Already a professional musician in her mid-teens, Kight moved away from playing country songs and began her career in Chicago blues. She appeared regularly on the television program Nashville Now in 1989 and toured extensively in the late 1990s and into the new millennium.

Her 1997 album, Come into the Blues, includes a version of "I've Been Loving You Too Long". In 2002, she performed at the ceremony when a statue of the song's writer, Otis Redding, was unveiled at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The same year, Blue South Records released Trouble. Southern Comfort followed the next year, with Chuck Leavell playing piano; the album contained her cover version of John Prine's "Angel from Montgomery".

In 2004, she released Takin' It Easy, which included, along with her own compositions, covers of Duke Ellington's "I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues" and the Allman Brothers Band's "Southbound." Guest musicians on the album were Ann Rabson, Chris Hicks (of the Marshall Tucker Band), and Greg Piccolo (formerly with Roomful of Blues). In the same year she was nominated for three Blues Music Awards.

On Kight's 2008 album, It's Hot in Here, released by M.C. Records, she wrote or co-wrote most of the tracks. It attained number one on the root blues chart and on Sirius XM Radio.

Prior to Kight's latest album release, Lip Service (2011), she had two stays in hospital due to a combination of meningitis and encephalitis.The album again had musical and production input from Paul Hornsby and contained "Koko's Song", a tribute to Taylor. The album also had her duet with John Németh.

Her songs have been recorded by Taylor, Dorothy Moore, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, and Shakura S'Aida. She endorses Taylor Guitars. Kight continues to live in Dublin, Georgia, on land that has belonged to her family for four generations.