Who is tinsley ellis

The emotionally-charged guitar solos soar in full service to the songs, as if Ellis is living and breathing the sound rather than simply playing the notes. Whether playing deep, slow blues or uptempo rockers, Ellis rides a gorgeously fat, pure tone.

While the worldwide pandemic and subsequent shutdown profoundly affected every musician and every person , Ellis used his time off the road to write over new songs.

In March , Ellis was forced to cancel the tour promoting his previous release, Ice Cream In Hell , only six weeks into the date run. He explored obscure studio and live recordings from some of his greatest musical heroes, such as the Allman Brothers, Freddie King, Michael Bloomfield, B.

King and beyond, and was inspired by his favorite artists all over again. Somehow, in the most unlikely of times, Tinsley Ellis committed to growing his already formidable talent. As early as April , he began regularly releasing his new material online, keeping his fans engaged and soaking up their comments and responses. He knew, thanks to the reactions of his fans to his new songs, that he needed to make a record and get back on the road as soon as possible.

Speak No Evil was released that October, but it would be another three and a half years before he issued another studio album, with Ellis choosing to focus on live performance for the intervening period.

When the all-instrumental Get It! Before the end of the year he had also prepared another album with the same lineup as the Get It! The very same team of players reconvened in the fall to cut Ice Cream in Hell , which saw release in January of AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental.

Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. He discovered the blues through the backdoor of British Invasion bands such as the Yardbirds, the Animals, Cream, and the Rolling Stones as well as Southern rockers such as the Allman Brothers.

Already an accomplished teenaged musician, Ellis soon joined a gritty local blues band, the Alley Cats. After cutting a few Heartfixers albums for the Landslide label, Ellis was ready to head out on his own.

Critics and fans quickly agreed that a new and original guitar hero had emerged. Ellis takes classic, Southern blues-rock workouts and jolts them to new life with a torrid ax barrage.