If you take one part Albert Collins, one part Jimi Hendrix, one part Stevie Ray Vaughan, and one part Eric Clapton, add a spritz of Afro Sheen, you get the intoxicating concoction that is Ryan “Bluwrath” Newman.
A child out of Jackson, Mississippi, at age 7, Ryan picked up the guitar and taught himself every Beatles song he could think of. Luckily for everyone, he overcame an unusual learning/attention disorder and his salvation was the guitar to the point of outplaying his early teachers who started learning his riffs. At age 8, a friend introduced Ryan to the music of Jimi Hendrix, specifically the tune “Wind Cries Mary” and his love of Blues Rock was born. Ryan’s skill and style was so mature and his fondness for the blues so developed that he and his first band were constantly booked at clubs, fairs and festivals. Along the way, ironically, rumor has it, he was “quietly” asked to leave Berkley School of Music for playing “too loud.”
The music of Stevie Ray, Jimi, Clapton, John Mayall, BB King and other blues greats etched their way into his soul. At 16, John Mayall invited Ryan to the stage and jam they did! Ryan’s astonishing technique and performances have been making the blues fun again for young and old. Ryan has already become a fixture on the Connecticut blues scene featured at the legendary blues clubs Black Eyed Sally’s in Hartford, and the Knickerbocker Music Center, Westerly, Rhode Island, with Jeff Pitchell.
This youthful, award-winning, power blues guitarist, already named “Best New Artist” by the New England Music Hall Of Fame, artfully backed by funky, soulful session gurus, including alumni of Edgar and Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and Lenny Kravitz, with a New York first-call live horn section to die for, uniquely interpreting Jimi, Stevie, Hoagie, BB and Keith plus unique arrangements of Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Jeff Beck, including Ryan’s own haunting “Leaving This World Tonight,” all of which coalesce to engender Ryan’s first full-length studio album: Wrath of Blues.
Ryan feels his passion for music sustains him on a daily basis and his life is forever enriched by this love. This “soft-spoken” prodigy is destined to “blow the roof ” off the modern blues scene. Ryan’s star is ascending. Whether stripped down acoustic or with a live electric band, Dig Ryan!
Track List:
- Dust My Broom
- Leaving This World
- Your Mind Is On Vacation
- Texas Flood
- The Thrill Is Gone
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Be Careful With A Fool
- Let Me Love You
- Get Up Stand Up
- Miss You
- Baltimore Oriole
- Come On
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Good To Me
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