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About Speak No Evil
Product Description For over 20 years, TINSLEY ELLIS has built a huge fan base pairing his guitar-driven blend of hard-edged Southern rock and roadhouse blues with over 150 club, theatre and festival performances a year. SPEAK NO EVIL features Tinsley's most groove-laden guitar work on twelve hard-hitting songs, his playing and singing packed with raw emotion. A milestone album from an iconic Southern blues-rocker. Review "...the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell." -- Atlanta Magazine "Blistering, inspired roadhouse blues and passionate Southern rock... supercharged guitar and gritty, soulful vocals." -- Relix "Ellis stands alongside Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter, and that ain't just hype." -- Guitar World "Ellis unleashes a torrent of dazzling musicianship pitched somewhere between the exhilarating volatility of rock `n' roll and the passion of urban blues." -- Los Angeles Times "feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor's edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves pyrotechnics that rival early Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton." -- Rolling Stone From the Artist "A musician never got famous staying at home," he's quick to note. About the Artist Tinsley Ellis wears his Southern roots proudly. Born in Atlanta in 1957, he grew up in southern Florida and first played guitar at age eight. He found the blues through the backdoor of the British Invasion bands like The Yardbirds, The Animals, Cream, and The Rolling Stones. He especially loved the Kings -- Freddie, B.B. and Albert -- and spent hours immersing himself in their music. His love for the blues solidified when he was 14. At a B.B. King performance, Tinsley sat mesmerized in front. When B.B. broke a string on Lucille, he changed it without missing a beat, and handed the broken string to Ellis. After the show, B.B. came out and talked with fans, further impressing Tinsley with his warmth and down-to-earth attitude. Ellis left Florida and returned to Atlanta in 1975. He soon joined the Alley Cats, a gritty blues band that included Preston Hubbard (of Fabulous Thunderbirds fame). In 1981, along with veteran blues singer and harpist Chicago Bob Nelson, Tinsley formed The Heartfixers, a group that would become Atlanta's top-drawing blues band. After cutting two more Heartfixers albums for Landslide, Cool On It (featuring Tinsley's vocal debut) and Tore Up (with vocals by blues shouter Nappy Brown), Ellis was ready to head out on his own. Georgia Blue, Tinsley's first Alligator release, hit an unprepared public by surprise in 1988. Critics and fans quickly agreed that a new and original guitar hero had emerged. "It's hard to overstate the raw power of his music," raved The Chicago Sun-Times. Before long, Alligator arranged to reissue Cool On It and Tore Up, thus exposing Tinsley's blistering earlier music to a growing fan base. Tinsley's subsequent releases - 1989's Fanning The Flames, 1992's Trouble Time, 1994's Storm Warning, and 1997's Fire It Up - further expanded the guitarist's hero status. By now his talents as a songwriter equaled his guitar prowess. Guests like Peter Buck (R.E.M.), guitarist Derek Trucks & keyboardist Chuck Leavell (Rolling Stones) joined him in the studio. Producers Eddy Offord (John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Yes) and even the legendary Tom Dowd (Allman Brothers, Ray Charles) helped Ellis hone his studio sound. Features and reviews ran in Rolling Stone, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and in many other national and regional publications. His largest audience by far came when NBC Sports ran a feature on Atlanta's best blues guitarist during their 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC coverage, viewed by millions of people all over the world. A move to Capricorn Records in 2000 saw Ellis revisiting his Southern roots with Kingpin. Unfortunately, the label folded soon after the CD's release. In 2002, he joined the Telarc label, pr
