Oli Brown has been dubbed a blues guitar virtuoso at the age
of 22, playing since the age of 13. Brown is bringing it home when the 2010 British
Music Awards named him the Best Male Vocalists, and Best Young Artist, and in
2011 he won the award for the Best Band, and Best album, HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOOSE.
Brown released his 3rd studio album 4/16/2012 HERE I AM. Topping the British Blues charts at number
one, the first week out of the gate.
Born in 1990 as Oliver Brown from Norfolk England, he
originally didn’t set out to be a blues band singer, and didn’t associate guitar
playing with rap or modern pop. He gradually became interested in the blues
guitar while listening to one of his dad’s records by Albert Collins. He later came under the wing of Carl
Gustafson (Blind Dog Smokin’) who invited him to the USA to tour with his
band, and had a lesson in the history of the blues, the art of timing, solo
performance, and stage performance, all which are part of his solo gigs.
TELGRAPH, reporter David Sinclair says, “Brown is certainly no blues purist or revivalist, more a
singer-songwriter building on a blues-rock platform. But his virtuoso technique
and general approach to his craft is more traditional than acts such as the
Black Keys or the White Stripes, both of whom he admires”.
He is a good singer, guitarist, and performer, and very easy
on the eyes, and could have a very long and rewarding career, doing what he loves most. Brown definitely, has a place in the blues rock genre.
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