"Fletcher favors toothy Strat tones, stinging bends, and flurries of tight, staccato riffs that seem to pop from his fretboard like little firecrackers."- Guitar Player Magazine

"Fletcher clearly has ensemble dynamics down, suggesting that his years as a sideman have been fruitful. But he's also unabashed as a bandleader, and his guitar work earns its prominence." - Blues Revue Magazine

"Kirk Fletcher is a young man with a big reputation in the making, he exudes class and style, knows all the classic licks but never resorts to mere copying, always with his own take in his trick bag." - Blues & Rhythm Magazine

Guys like Kirk "Eli" Fletcher shouldn't be rare in the blues, but as blues fans know, they are.  At a time when his contemporaries are emulating hip-hop and artists with names such as 50 Cent or P. Diddy, Fletcher's heroes are people like B.B. King and Muddy Waters.  He's not just "one of" the only young black men who has mastered this music - for all practical purposes, he's "THE" one.

If you close your eyes, you're there.  Kirk Fletcher brings you the sound of blues as it was played when giants like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker and Little Walter still towered over the blues landscape.  Kirk not only "gets it", he's got it, that hard-to-define depth that makes every phrase he plays come sounding exactly like the blues and nothing else.  Fletcher's uniqueness in his field coupled with his extraordinary talent has earned him feature stories in virtually every major blues publication in the world.

As a two time Blues Music Award nominee who has toured with Lynwood Slim, Janiva Magness, Charlie Musselwhite, The Mannish Boys, The Hollywood Blue Flames and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, as well as performed with James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Mojo Buford, Phillip Walker, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Michael Landau, Elvin Bishop, Ronnie Earl, Doyle Bramhall, Michelle Branch and many more... Kirk Fletcher is considered one of the best young guitar players on the blues scene today.

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Kirk Fletcher - Live at the Cognac Blues Festival