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When he was 6 years old, Mike Watson peered
out of his bedroom window and watched with disgust as rain began to fall.
"I was a kid. I wanted to go outside and play," Watson said with a
laugh. Instead, he grabbed notebook paper and an Eberhard Faber and scribbled
his first blues song about the heartache of a rainy day. Now, years later,
he's back singing the blues and working on his first album devoted to that
growling, soulful Beale Street sound. Watson is shooting for an early March
release on the new independent label-"Da Blues King Records. "It just
seems to be what's coming next," Watson said.
He has never left music and has spent his career writing, playing lead guitar
and performing."It was like I was born with a guitar," Watson said. In
high school, Watson and friends formed a band and spent most weekend nights
performing for the frat boys and sorority girls of West Georgia College
in Carrollton-not far from his hometown of Bowdon. Before long, he was the hit
of Hapeville,Ga., crooning country at the Nevada Lounge. For the past twenty
years, he's chased country music and watched it change from the music of Merle
Haggard and Waylon Jennings to the new comers like Shania Twain and Trace
Adkins. He has opened and performed with the Freddy Fender Band, Allen Frizzell,
Confederate Railroad, Janie Frickie, Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, Cheap
Trick and Darlene Austin, among numerous others and has been a favorite
performer on the emerging casino circuit. It was partly that lifestyle of
endless traveling, lonesome nights far from home and too many near misses with
Nashville that brought him full circle to rhythm and blues. "Rhythm and
blues is more than just music," Watson said. "It's a feeling, listen
to the lyrics," he advises. "They drive the point home." His fans
have connected with Watson's -new sound and especially one of his own songs,
"It's Lonely Here Tonight". "Yeah," Watson said with a
throaty chuckle, "They really seem to like that one." He counts B.B.
King, Al Greene, and Muddy Waters among his musical influences along with his
grandfather, James Kent, who hailed from Hazen, Arkansas and played a mean
fiddle. Watson was also inspired by a blues artist - Z.Z. Hill. "He never
received the acclaim he deserved," Watson said of the musician. But in
Hill's recordings, Watson felt he'd found his musical home. Fans can hear it in
Watson's work - an interaction of vocals and instruments that play off of,
punctuate and complement each other in a way that is uniquely the blues.
Look for great things on the horizon with a
new album in hand, a new band and a sound that is uniquely Mike Watson!!!
*Amy Swann is a well noted and highly
publicized journalist throughout the
southeast...*
We hope you enjoy listening to our songs
and staying up to date on the latest with Mike Watson !!!
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CD: Mike Watson - Biscuit On My Mind (Live)
Label: Da Blues King Records
Credits: Mike Watson, Doyle Grisham - Producers |
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CD: Biscuit On My Mind
Label: 'Da Blues King Records
Credits: Writer & Producer: Mike Watson |
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