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Bill Sheffield

Everything about Bill Sheffield is the blues. It's there in the intense, transcendent way he finger picks his guitar.  "I play a fairly rare style," he says. "It's a finger picking style inspired by John Hurt and Blind Blake. It dances by itself. You can sit there and play guitar and it just dances. Sometimes when I'm really swinging, it feels like my hands are disconnected from my body."  It's there in his songs that wrestle with earthly pleasure and the need for redemption.

The blues are most definitely is there in Journal On A Shelf, his latest studio recording on American Roots Records.  Journal On A Shelf distills a lifetime pursuit of the blues and authentic American roots music into 14 songs that announce the arrival of one of the most significant roots musicians to emerge in the past decade.  While he's steadily been gaining a reputation as an unsung hero in the blues community, his new album promises to break Sheffield on a national level.  It's one of those rare albums showcasing an artist as he is tapping into genius.

Sheffield shows a mastery of the blues and all its hybrid children - country, folk, jazz and gospel.  If it's authentic and can be played on an acoustic guitar, this aficionado of American roots music sings new life into it.

“Bill has an amazing talent on the guitar and mesmerizes the listener with bluesy licks and signature finger picking. This blues prodigy is standing at a crossroads of country and blues fusion that invades every part of your being. His music dictates a powerful belief that you can’t sing the blues unless you live the blues. Bill’s heartfelt lyrics fill your imagination with descriptive colorful pictures, and the guitar gets under your skin and runs through your veins with blood-pumping beats and foot-stomping melodies.”  Rebecca Hosking

“This Atlanta-based singer/songwriter/guitarist writes and plays songs that find a "connection between Muddy Waters and Hank Williams." He's not the first to combine acoustic country and blues, but his folksy lyrics and old-timey tinged voice add flavors of artists such as Loudon Wainwright III, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Leon Redbone to the usual battery of blues influences.”  AngryCountry.com

“For a good time, check out Bill Sheffield and have yourself a rip-roaring time. Call your goodtime friends and make a party out of it. This is a man who loves life, loves to make music, and loves to get your feet tapping and a smile tugging.”  Kevan Breitinger , TrueTunes.com