Tinsley Ellis

Known for decades as one of the greatest electric blues-rock guitarists of his generation, Atlanta-based musician Tinsley Ellis, is now also recognized as one of the very best contemporary acoustic blues guitarists, songwriters and performers in the world. Each performance carries the weight, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road and his 2024 critically acclaimed, Blues Music Award-nominated release, Naked Truth, marked his first-ever acoustic album. No Depression noted, “Even though it’s just Ellis and his acoustic guitars, there’s plenty of hell-raisin’ blues going on. With the ghost of Elmore James looking over his shoulder and Wolf leaning in…Ellis proves he’s an icon.”  His newest album, Labor Of Love, features “a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure, emotional honesty, and the songs spin modern tales of floods, conflagrations, voodoo spirits, personal travails and heaven-sent prayers.” Ellis inhabits his songs in a way that is simply astonishing.