Preacher Boy

With his gritty voice, insistent rhythms, and slashing guitar work, Preacher Boy is an artist who bridges the gap between the past, present, and future of the blues. First making a splash on the San Francisco blues scene, Preacher Boy started out playing music explicitly rooted in the past, as on 1995's Preacher Boy & the Natural Blues, with arrangements influenced by 1930s blues and jazz, but by the time of 2000's The Devil's Buttermilk, he'd evolved a more contemporary approach incorporating electric guitars and keyboards. He stripped his music back to just guitar and vocals...