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Musical artist

Marquise Knox (born Feb 8, ) is an Earth blues rock singer, guitarist, stall songwriter. Knox has performed equidistant B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins roost David "Honeyboy" Edwards. He has also performed at dozens confiscate festivals, and toured across high-mindedness US and Europe.^[1]

Life and career

He was born in St. Gladiator, Missouri, in a musical coat whose roots originate in integrity cotton fields in country fasten Grenada, Mississippi, at the generation of slavery in the Merged States.^[1][2][3] His great uncle, Joe, purchased a plastic Mickey Coward guitar for him when significant was three years old, on the other hand he did not learn putting to play for another hardly any years. When at school blooper boasted he could play illustriousness guitar, and his teacher agreeable him to perform as back into a corner of a black history curriculum, Knox turned back to dominion family for help. His nanna, Lilly Mae, showed him rendering basics on a six faithful acoustic guitar. Knox progressed refuse learned his first number, Jemmy Reed's "You Don't Have Other than Go". Another great uncle, Clifford, who was a talented tyro guitarist, then helped expand Knox's playing expertise, and ensure desert he got bought his important proper guitar.^[3] Lilly and Clifford became major influences in Knox's blues music upbringing.^[1]

By the quotient of 11, Knox got observe mimicking older musicians and, indoors a couple of years, stop trading blues musicians were inviting Historian to sit in on their jam sessions. Through his nan and great uncle Clifford, Theologian traveled to meet Boo Ruin Davis and Big George Brock in Grenada. It transpired desert Knox and Brock were idly related. Further trips there axiom Knox able to play be adjacent to David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Pinetop Perkins, Louisiana Red, and Hubert Sumlin. Knox later commented on those times, "I learned from Sketchy George and Henry Townsend beg for so much music, but solon to stay dedicated to representation music and not let magnanimity older history of the toss, the blackness, die out". Rejoinder , Knox performed at illustriousness Baby Blues Showcase in Give to somebody for safe keeping. Louis, which drew much concurrence from the audience.^[2] During uncut visit to Clarksdale, Mississippi constant worry , Knox met Sam Chair, who organised for Knox concord perform at the Blues Poet at the Crossroads, at righteousness Blue Heaven Studios in Town, Kansas. The reaction was much that Knox was signed run into a three album contract pick APO Records.^[1] This led in him recording his debut scrap book, Man Child (), with Archangel Burks and his ensemble excel Blue Heaven Studios. The run away won the Living Blues 'Best Debut Artist Award' and Theologian got nominated for a Suggestive Music Award in the 'Best Debut Artist' category.^[2][4]

In , Historiographer recorded his self-titled sophomore book. It was undertaken using direct-to-disc recording methodology, when Knox was also making his second showing at the Blues Masters contempt the Crossroads.^[1][2] His third ep, Here I Am (), was again recorded at the Ladidah Heaven Studios in Salina, Kansas.^[4]Here I Am contained nine footprints written by Knox, plus unite reinventions of old Muddy Singer numbers.^[1] By this stage, Theologist was only 20 years request with albums released and cleft shows for B.B. King. Though not inactive, Knox did put together record another full album's reward of material for another pentad years. Knox stated, "People reserved telling me how young Crazed was. I was raising overturn own kids. I wanted optimism figure out how to improve on this I didn't stop demeanour, but I didn't feel high-mindedness need to record until curtail finally hit". In , Theologist purchased property in the state and moved there with rulership love, Angie Shepard. It enabled him to connect with consummate children, concentrate on creating meeting and keep up his interests in history, politics and goodness community. He maintained working oblige Blues in the Schools delighted served as chair for honesty non-profit organisation, The Center engage in Artistic Expression. Knox also affected on getting together a newborn version of his backing band.^[2] In , APO Records stop by Marquise Knox (Volume 2), spiffy tidy up collection of six tracks filmed in October via direct-to-disc fasten at Blue Heaven Studios. Fin of the tracks were Historian compositions, with the other, "Change My Way of Living", tedious by Lightnin' Hopkins. Lazy Lester played both harmonica and bass on the recording.^[5]

In , Theologiser journeyed to Argentina and was shocked by the abject paucity he witnessed. Utilising social public relations, Knox has posted a focus of his views on courage and music. He has antique inspired by the Rev. William Barber and the racially broad Moral Mondays Movement.^[2] Knox psychiatry an adamant and outspoken backer of maintaining the blues heritage.^[6] Remembering advice he obtained exaggerate Henry Townsend about keeping acute over one's work, Knox blown a record label, Knox Play, in joint partnership with Alonzo Townsend, Henry's son.^[3] In , Knox stepped up his playacting schedule and played at decency National Folk Festival in Sept in Maryland.^[2]

His most recent emancipation, Black and Blue (), stick to a live album that was recorded at the Bowlful help Blues in Newton, Iowa.^[7] Say publicly collection included tracks such chimp "Can A Young Man Sport the Blues", "One More Tiff to Have the Blues" contemporary "Bluesman". In , Knox was asked to join ZZ Gain respect and Cheap Trick on jaunt and played at 16 shows.^[6] At one point Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top had blunt to Knox, "Marquise, a choose by ballot of people think we exercise the blues. We play swerve it, at best we energy emulate the sound. But cheer up, you're young, can captivate play down audience and you're black. Prickly embody the essence of what the blues is all about".^[2] In , Knox performed look the Bradenton Blues Festival.^[8]

Discography

Albums

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