British musician, Michael Messer decided to risk himself and travel to Nashville when he was only twenty years old, where he met a handful of the ‘great’ names, which included Johnny Cash and other people around Cash When he came back to his home in England at the end of the 1970s, Michael was already an excellent guitarist and a prodigious master of the slide with a huge knowledge of Mississippi Delta blues Much has been written about this amazing blues performer, but one of the most prestigious honors he received was to be considered by Spirit magazine as one of the best slide blues musicians, just behind Duane Allman and Ry Cooder National Avenue was originally released in 1996 only in the United Kingdom, and now time has come to enjoy it around the world Eleven own Michael Messer’s songs played with an extreme passion and feeling You will also find a good bunch of faultless backing musicians who round up the cd