Scott Holt

Scott Holt - From Lettsworth To Legend - A Tribute To Buddy Guy - 2007 - Audio Fidelity

A lesson in how blues guitar should be played by the virtuoso guitarist, Scott Holt. If there is a better Buddy Guy tribute album out there, A.O.O.F.C would like to hear it. Check out Scott Holt's brilliant "Messin With The Kid" album

TRACKS / COMPOSERS

1 Intro (0:12) - Buddy Guy
2 First Time I Met the Blues (3:45) - Little Brother Montgomery
3 Damn Right I've Got the Blues (6:26) - Buddy Guy
4 My Time Afterwhile (5:31) - Badger, Fienberg, Geddins
5 Nice and Clean (3:44) - Buddy Guy
6 I Dig Your Wig (3:31) - Dixon, Guy
7 She Suits Me to a T (5:22) - Buddy Guy
8 Ten Years Ago (4:36) - Buddy Guy
9 Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar (4:57) - Christian, Holder
10 When My Left Eye Jumps (5:01) - Willie Dixon
11 My Mother (4:17) - Buddy Guy
12 Too Many Ways (2:22) - Willie Dixon
13 One Room Country Shack (5:17) - Mercy Dee Walton
14 You've Been Gone Too Long (3:47) - Buddy Guy
15 Outro (0:15) - Buddy Guy

MUSICIANS

Scott Holt - Guitar, Vocals
Richard Sanders - Bass
Tom Larson - Drums

BIO

Guitar virtuoso Scott Holt first came to national prominence as part of various high energy bands led by legendary Chicago blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy. He was just 23 when Guy took him under his wing and taught him how to travel intelligently while accommodating the rigorous nature of blues touring. Holt stayed with Guy on the road and in the recording studio for a decade, earning his post-graduate education with one of the true blues guitar masters. Holt was raised in Tennessee, and hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time proved to be a revelatory moment in his life. His parents bought him a guitar for Christmas when he was 12. Like a lot of kids, he took piano lessons, because he had to, but he quit after six months. He didn't get serious about playing the instrument until he was 19, when his parents bought him an electric guitar. When he was 20, his father took him to hear Buddy Guy one night. That night, he met Guy and got an improvised guitar lesson from the master. He would frequently sit in with Guy on stage when he was touring around Nashville. One day in 1989, Guy called Holt out of the blue and asked him to join his touring band. Holt began writing his own songs while on the road with Guy and eventually began to record his songs, back home in Nashville, during breaks from Guy's international touring schedule. In a record company biography accompanying "Dark of the Night," his first nationally distributed recording, Holt argues: "Every genre has its purists, but blues doesn't start and stop with Muddy Waters." Indeed, through the 1990's and into the new millennium, Holt and his various touring bands have been expanding the parameters of the form, and thanks to his decade on the road with Guy, he's been able to share stages and learn from the likes of Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Albert Collins, Jack Bruce, Carlos Santana and Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora. Holt's albums under his own name, which showcase his abilities as a songwriter and singer as well as his fiery, passionate, high energy guitar playing, include his debut, "Messing with the Kid," in 1998, "Dark of the Night," a 1999 release for Mystic Music, "Chipped Front Tooth," for Lightyear Entertainment in 2003, and "From Lettsworth to Legend: A Tribute to Buddy Guy." More recently, he's released "Angels in Exile" for Blue Storm Music in 2001 and "Revelator" for Rockview in late 2005. Holt continues to tour the U.S. and Canada. © Richard J. Skelly, allmusic.com



MORE ABOUT SCOTT HOLT

At the age of 19, after hearing Jimi Hendrix for the very first time, Scott Holt started playing guitar, and soon found the Blues. One year later, his father took him to see legendary Blues artist, Buddy Guy, and his life was forever changed. Following a chance meeting backstage, and an impromptu guitar lesson, a friendship developed that would last a lifetime. At the age of 23, Scott joined the Buddy Guy Band and describes it as his "trip to the University". After many years of touring the world with Buddy, and playing with artists such as Eric Clapton, and Carlos Santana, in 1999, the time had come to launch a solo career. Angels in Exile, is Scott Holt's first release to include original material co-written by Holt and such songwriters as 3-time Grammy Award Winner Dennis Walker (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Play With My Friends), Danny Tate (Kenny Wayne Sheppard), and Richard Fleming. The album is a gritty blend of heated guitar rifts, heartfelt lyrics with soulful vocals, and includes special guests Paul Barrere and Billy Payne of Little Feat. It is produced by Greg Hampton and engineered and mixed by Ben Elliott (Eric Clapton, Kim Simmonds). By touring throughout the U.S. and the UK in 2000 he is garnering a solid fan base and creating excitement as the young and hip "new face" of the Blues Rock genre. He appeared at the Chicago Blues Festival, London Blues Festival (UK), Windsor Blues Festival (UK), and the Eureka Springs Blues Festival, and continues to generate rave reviews of both "old school" Blues fans and the younger set who are being introduced to, not only Scott Holt, but are discovering the Blues for themselves. "I've always believed that music played from the heart is a form of prayer. That's what the Blues is to me; it's the sound of the human heart rejoicing, or crying, or both at the same time! Now that I'm on my own, it's my responsibility to continue playing the Blues and keep them alive. If I teach one person about Elmore James or Earl Hooker, if I give one person the encouragement to pick up an instrument and make that joyful noise, then all the lessons I've learned won't be in vain." © www.bellyup4blues.com