D.K. Harrell (26) is the big new star on the American blues scene. In just one year, the self-taught guitarist and singer has grown from promising to one of the most sought-after blues musicians. The debut album “The Right Man” was critically acclaimed worldwide when it was released in June 2023 and became the second most played blues album on US radio stations that year. Earlier this year, he was named Best Newcomer at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis.<\/p>\n\n
His interest in the blues began when he was eleven years old in Louisiana and saw the movie “Cadillac Records”, about the lives of Muddy Waters and Little Walter, among others. Inspired by Walter, he started playing the harmonica, but at the age of 13 he switched to the guitar. When he discovered B.B. King, he devoured every video he could find of the “guitar king”. At the age of 19, he went to B.B.’s hometown of Indianola, Mississippi to play at a blues symposium, and at the B.B. King Museum he had the honor of playing his famous guitar “Lucille”. To record his first album, ‘The Right Man’, the label assembled an all-star team of musicians, from Jerry Jermott (bass) and Tony Coleman (drums), who played with B.B., to Jim Pugh (organ) and guest artists and admirers such as Charlie Musselwhite, Bobby Rush, Susan Tedeschi and Chris Cain. The album was produced by Kid Andersen.<\/p>\n\n
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