Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

Shelton Powe plays in the Piedmont finger-style guitar tradition of his parents and elders, but it took him a long time to get back to that music “The starkness makes it feel like blues from another time long ago when bluesmen showed up at country bars, kicked...
Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

Wildfire Music Spotlights Shelton Powe

Shelton Powe’s Piedmont Blues Spotlighted By Music Maker Foundation “Picking up the guitar as a tribute to his deceased mother, Shelton set out to learn old-time Blues and Gospel the way he remembered it, revisiting his childhood through song.”  |  Read...
Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

Americana Highways Premieres Shelton Powe Track

Song Premiere: Shelton Powe “She Don’t Care About Me” “His Piedmont finger-picking guitar style is showcased in understated elegance here. It’s produced in bright and shiny pings and twangs.”  |  Read More at Americana...
Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

American Blues Scene Premiere: Shelton Powe

Exclusive: Piedmont Blues Guitarist Shelton Powe Premieres Old-Time “Shake ‘Em On Down” “More than a musical fancy, the Carolina blues is a piece of Powe, and listening to him play instantly transports listeners back to the wellspring of the...
Glide Premiere: Shelton Powe “Take Me Back”

No Depression Review: Music Maker Songbook

Music Maker Songbook Shows Off Blues’ Best and Invites Playing Along “This Music Maker compilation is one of the best the foundation has put out to date, an in-depth look and listen of the treasures these elders still have to offer.”  |  Read More at No...