Music / blues

The angels in Heaven done signed my name


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American songwriter

d. 4. Mar. 2019

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Hal Horowitz

d. 4. Mar. 2019

"The unlikely story of how obscure guitarist/singer Welch released his first album in 2014 (for Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess label) when he was already 81 years old is the stuff of legend and an award-winning 2018 documentary appropriately titled Late Blossom Blues. Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach was alerted to Welch through Fat Possum's owner Bruce Watson who had already released a few Welch albums. Watson, not coincidently, was the first to release music from the Black Keys ... Although Welch's health (and mind) were failing, you won't be able to tell from these ten sizzling pieces. He chose traditional gospel numbers he had played in church for decades, so he was comfortable and familiar with the material".