Born in Orlando, Florida, in 1985, singer, guitar player and songwriter Selwyn Birchwood started to play guitar at thirteen Popular styles among young people like grunge rock, hip-hop or metal trash did not fill or stimulate him so, it was not until the moment he discovered Jimi Hendrix and, starting from this artist, he went more deeply into the music of Albert King, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Lightnin’ Hopkins and especially Buddy Guy, when he decided to devote himself to the blues At nineteen Selwyn joined Sonny Rhodes’ band who taught him all blues and music business secrets, besides lap steel and, of course, guitar In 2013 he and his band won the International Blues Challenge and up to date he has released two albums for Chicago’s Alligator Records, so this is his third album for this label You will find thirteen songs where, according to Selwyn’s own words, he wanted to play blues in his personal own style, without imitating other musicians If Muddy Waters, BB King or John Lee Hooker were able to tell their own stories, now he wants to do too with an energetic, raw and even hurtful painful way, well surrounded by Regi Oliver on sax, Walter Bunt May on piano, B-3 and Wurlitzer, Donald Huff Wright on bass and Philip Squeak Walker on drums, plus the special collaboration of Tom Hambridge, Diunna Greenleaf and Cece Teneal on backing vocals each one in one song So here comes a good contemporary blues album to be discovered and enjoyed very often