Bill Sheffield, the roots-country-blues master, releases his ninth album continuing his storytelling of blue collar living in america with songs like "The Legend of John Montgomery", "These Four Walls" and "A Greater God." The former Roy Buchanan guitarist, also offers the just for fun "Kalamazoo," the sing along, "After The Rapture" and the title track "Got A Gig, Gotta Go" for those in need of lighter fare. Exceptional melding of americana, country, roots and blues into a sound that is pure american music. Sheffield combines folk,blues and country with a little bit of gospel and a lot of soul to produce some of the most beautiful acoustic music to be heard.
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Bill Sheffield - 2004 - Hearing Things [VBR]
Acoustic Blues - Bill Sheffield sings like a soulman trapped in a bluesman's body.
Bill Sheffield - 2002 - Live At The Blue Raccoon [320]
The Delta, dark and muddy, flows through his veins. His voice laments and wails, it prays and pleads. His fingers dance along the strings of a travel-worn guitar to an ancient and mystic melody. His heart beats sin. It beats again for salvation. There may just be a hellhound on his trail, but he's got one foot on the church step. Everything about Bill Sheffield is the blues. It's there in the intense, transcendent way he finger-picks his guitar with hints of John Hurt and Blind Blake flashing through. It's there in his songs that wrestle with earthly pleasure and the need for redemption.
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