Kirk Fletcher - I'm Here and I'm Gone (1999/2009)

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Here and not gone

For a debut album it's a hell of a great album ! It's titled “I'm Here And I'm Gone” but the 24 years old Southern California native Kirk Fletcher is never gone since, active and acclaimed ! An exceptional guitar player and thrilling vocalist, Fletcher was lucky to find a talented producer, the excellent Jimmy Morello, who wrote more than half the songs and brought with him some of his pals : guitarist Alex Schultz, bassist Rick Reed, drummer Paul Fasulo, and John Marx, here on vocals.

Fletcher belongs to this new generation of bluesmen who do not limit themselves to one blues style but explore most of them and blend them together to forge their own personal signature. Fletcher debut album mixes jump, swing, boogie, Texas style, Chicago or Memphis sounds, infusing a rock'n'roll energy in many of the songs, and delivering long soulful guitar solos. The only kind of blues absent from the album is acoustic roots blues.