"Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials are genuine house-rocking
masters…some of the hottest electric blues around. Duck-walking,
back-bending, mind-blowing." --Blues Revue
"You got the blues? This is how you attack them. You rip them
from your heart, hand them to your rhythm section and send volleys
from that gleaming metal tube slipped onto your little finger.
Ferocious slide guitar…locomotive precision and brutal intensity."
-Houston Chronicle
"High-energy electric blues power. Lil' Ed is a singer who can
make his voice sound sweet or raw on command. Outstanding, giant
passion." -New York Post
Lil' Ed Williams, although small in stature, is a true giant of
the blues. From smoking slide guitar boogies to raw-boned Chicago
shuffles to the deepest slow blues, Lil' Ed Williams is a master
bluesman. A gifted guitarist and a remarkably gritty and soulful
vocalist, Williams, along with his blistering, road-tested band, the
Blues Imperials, has been tearing up clubs and festival stages all
over the world for almost 20 years. Between the band's wonderfully
raucous music and Ed's flying leaps, his back-bending and
toe-walking through the audience and sliding across the stage on his
knees, it's no wonder The Boston Globe called Lil' Ed and
the Blues Imperials "the world's #1 houserocking band."
Hailing from the West Side of Chicago, Ed boasts a direct
bloodline to blues history -- his uncle and musical mentor was the
great Chicago slide guitarist and recording artist J.B. Hutto.
According to The Chicago Tribune, "Williams represents one
of the few remaining authentic links to the raucous but pure Chicago
blues." The Associated Press agreed, stating, "Williams
fills Chicago's biggest shoes with more life and heat than anyone on
stage today." Adding to the legend is Ed's storybook rise taking him
from working in a car wash to entertaining thousands of his fans all
over the world. (more
about "Lil Ed")
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Reviews:
"The world's #1 houserocking blues band."
--Boston Globe
"With a jumping band pumping behind him, Lil' Ed blasts wild,
passionate, blazing-hot slide...powerful, raucous boogie blues
that's utterly devoid of rock, jazz or fusion influences ."
-- Guitar Player
"Raw-boned, old-fashioned Chicago blues has a new young
master--Lil' Ed Williams."
-- New York Times
"Ed plays slide guitar like a back-alley shiv...high-decibal,
gutbucket blues at its most brutally honest."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"The liveliest blues showman alive, with an explosive,
good-rocking guitar sound and the stage moves to match. Raw,
gutbucket blues sure to get you up and dancing."
-- Philadelphia Daily News
"A party band in the best sense of the word...the hottest purveyors
of bottleneck boogie to come out of Chicago since Hound Dog Taylor
."
-- Boston Globe
"The meanest bottle neck boogie blues around. This roughhousin'
stage spitfire will ignite any crowd... Rollicking good fun and raw
intensity."
-- Austin Chronicle
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