Browsing: Mike Wheeler

“It’s my time.” – Demetria Taylor

“I have a large variety of influences and I listen to a lot of music. I incorporate it into all of the music I make. It is still blues music but it comes from different angles.” Mike Wheeler

“John Lee Hooker’s guitar sound is unmistakably his. No one else can play like that. It’s raw. It’s intense. It’s everything I want to hear in a blues record.”

“I’m grateful to all the young musicians that are coming up, playing music, and trying to keep hope alive for the blues.”

Wheeler is from the school of “I will let my guitar do the talking.” He knows when to let loose, and when to let things breathe a bit. He does not try to impress with a million notes in 12 bars. All his playing makes sense, is for the betterment of the song, and every note belongs right where he plays it.