Singer, guitar player and occasionally harmonica player Eddie Kirkland was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1928. He grew up in Alabama and in 1944 he settled in Detroit, where after a few years, he became a reference musician of the Motor City sound. He worked at different clubs with John Lee Hooker for some years and, during the following decades, he gained a reputation of excellent showman and versatile musician. He was able to mix with great personality, the original rhythm & blues he had learned touring with Ruth Brown, Little Richard, Ben E King, Otis Redding and Johnny Taylor, with the most deep down home blues you can imagine<\/p>\n
“Democrat Blues” was recorded in autumn 2002. Eddie was able to capture on it the magic and feeling of his own music, giving them to the audience, on a simple but, at the same time, effective right way, with the support of a bunch of musicians who perfeftly understood and respected him, who were Dave Ray on guitar, Fuzzy Samuels on bass and Andre Wright on drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Singer, guitar player and occasionally harmonica player Eddie Kirkland was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1928. He grew up in Alabama and in 1944 he settled in Detroit, where after a few years, he became a reference musician of the Motor City sound. He worked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n