FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EDDY "THE CHIEF" CLEARWATER PLAYS THE KITCHENER BLUES FESTIVAL!

EVANSTON, IL
Media Contacts: Lynn Orman / (847.452.6469 / lynnietoons@aol.com
Gabrielle Weiss (312) 532-0665 / gabisweiss@yahoo.com

Where: Kitchener's Blues Festival

Phone: (519) 571-2555

Venue Web Site: www.KitchenerBluesFestival.com

Eddy is scheduled to play: Friday, August 6th, 7:20 - 8:50pm, BIA Stage

Individual Ticket Cost: FREE !

Artist's Web site: www.EddyClearwater.com

This year the TD Kitchener Blues Festival celebrates 10 years of the blues. With record numbers filling the downtown outdoor venues, it’s hard to believe that we entertain 65,000 people, over four days and 5 stages. To celebrate our 10th anniversary we have added the ‘Clocktower Stage” for more musical experiences in a large tent and park-like setting. Everything is so close together that you need to stroll from one exciting venue to the next.

During the 1950s, Chicago's West Side was a breeding ground for some of the world's greatest bluesmen. Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Freddie King and others ruled the clubs. With his fierce guitar playing, soulful and emotive vocals and wild stage shows, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater easily belongs on this list. A Chicago legend, Clearwater is an intense, flamboyant blues-rocking showman. He's equally comfortable playing the deepest, most heartfelt blues or rocking, good-time party music. DownBeat said, "Left-hander Eddy Clearwater is a forceful six-stringer...He lays down some gritty West Side shuffles and belly-grinding slow blues that highlight his raw chops, soulful vocals, and earthy, humorous lyrics."
- Blues Revue


Between his slashing left-handed guitar work, his room-filling vocals, his self-defined "rock-a-blues" style (a forceful mix of blues, rock, rockabilly, country and gospel), his boundless energy and even his signature Indian headdress, Clearwater is among the very finest practitioners of the West Side blues working today. The blues world recognized his talent by giving him the Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the Year in 2001. His last release, 2003's Rock 'N' Roll City, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Now he's back with his very first Alligator CD, the aptly titled WEST SIDE STRUT.

"Joyous rave-ups...Clearwater testifies with stunning soul fervor and a powerful guitar. One of the blues' finest songwriters"

"With his powerful left-handed guitar playing, unique hybrid of West Side blues, relentless rockabilly and high energy performances, Eddy "The Chief" is Chicago's premier blues showman."
- Chicago Tribune

"Clearwater is equally adept at Chuck Berry-style guitar as he is at deeper blues style. He's a fine singer who puts on a wild, exciting show...the sort of exuberant entertainer who can turn a concert into a party."
- New York Times

"A focused mixture of T-Bone Walker cool and distinctly Chicago riffage...uncanny grooves... satisfying, funky."
- Billboard

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