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 and Howlin' Wolf and 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 comes sounding exactly like the blues.

Veteran bluesmen who could hire any guitarist they want - Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and harp master Charlie Musselwhite, to name just a few - hire Kirk, not because he's black, but because he's one of the best electric blues guitarists in the world today!

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Kirk Fletcher - Live at the Cognac Blues Festival