NEW AT KING BEE MUSIC AGENCY:
Big Daddy Wilson (USA)
A deep soulful voice and absolute love for the blues
... we're talking about the great Big Daddy Wilson !
King Bee Music Agency is pleased to have this blues artist on board.
In cooperation with Helga Blount (Blount Bookings) we are now responsible for bookings in The Benelux and Germany.
Here's what they say about his latest recording ''Deep In My Soul'' (released on 19.04.2019)
Wilson
is not the same man who left a quarter-century ago.
Born and raised in Edenton, North Carolina, the bluesman still remembers his
earliest years as a “real country boy”, whose family urged him to sing in
church to avoid the temptations of drugs and gangs. But the epiphany came in
1979, when he enlisted in the US Army, travelled to Germany and discovered the
power of live blues in the local clubs.
“It was here,” he says, “that I found part of me that was missing for so
long in my life.”
As
a rising artist, Wilson was quickly embraced on the European circuit for his
unforgettable smoked-honey voice, alongside original songwriting that took in
blues, funk, soul and reggae on albums like Love
Is The Key (2009) Thumb A Ride
(2011), I’m Your Man (2013), Time
(2015) and 2017’s Neck Bone Stew, praised
for its “authenticity” by Classic Rock.
Through it all, the South always simmered beneath the surface. “As soon as you
hear Big Daddy Wilson’s voice,” explains A-list fan Eric Bibb, “whether
speaking or singing, you hear his Southern country roots.”
As for Wilson’s lyrics, Deep In My Soul addresses love in all its forms: “Voodoo is about a holy man who don't believe in voodoo, but this woman got some type of hold of him that he can't break free from. Hold On To Our Love is about a mixed couple trying to hold on to the love of their life despite the pressure from this world. I Know is when you found the love of your life, everything inside of you tells you that, no doubt about it. So you see – it’s all about love. It’s always about love.”
Some
things change. Others stay the same. And with Deep
In My Soul, Big Daddy Wilson’s music and career come full-circle in style.
“I see it as a journey,” he says of his incredible backstory. “It’s the
journey of a man who found himself deep in this beautiful music called the blues
and finally, after 25 years, made it back home…”