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Sweet Willie D ......Deacon of the Blues
As a Deacon who got into the house
rockin' business about ten
years ago, Sweet Willie D is living proof that the art of
blues shouting (which requires wailing, rapping, testifying, and bleeding
charisma) is still alive and still very hip.
All great bluesmen have a story.
Whether it's
Robert Johnson's deal with the devil or Stevie Ray Vaughn's tragic helicopter
crash, history has shown that the blues builds it's legends on equal parts music
and mythology. If that's true Sweet Willie D is already halfway to immortality.
He's been a Baptist Deacon, a farmer, a martial
arts instructor, a barbeque gourmet, a military man and a special education
instructor, and that's all before his career in the blues began just ten years
ago. In that short time Sweet Willie D has brought the old-fashioned art of
blues shouting to New England and led his own band, The Continental Walk to rave
reviews throughout the region.
J Place (blues
artist/ writer)
Mason Neely (news
correspondent, Metro West Daily News)
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