The Shadow
Southern blues-rock guitar wizard, vocalist, and songwriter Tinsley Ellis is a bona fide worldwide guitar hero. The Chicago Sun-Times says, “It’s hard to overstate the raw power of his music.” Armed with his signature molten licks, melodic riffs, and rousing, intense solos, Ellis, as his legions of fans will attest, is among the blues world’s best-loved, hardest working, and most well-traveled statesmen. He has performed in all 50 states as well as in Canada, Western, and Eastern Europe, Australia, and South America, earning legions of fans with his guitar virtuosity, passionate vocals, and memorable original songs. Ellis is also revered as a guitarist’s guitarist, with famous friends including Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Oliver Wood, Jonny Lang, and members of Widespread Panic calling on him to sit in and jam. “A musician never got famous staying home,” he says.
Over the course of his career, Ellis has shared stages with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, The Allman Brothers, Leon Russell, Son Seals, Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, and many others. Whether he’s on stage with his own band or jamming with artists like Buddy Guy, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gov’t Mule, or Widespread Panic, he always plays with grit, soul, and unbridled passion.
Wednesday, February 9 at 7:30 pm Tinsley Ellis takes the stage of The Historic Masonic Theatre!
