At just 25 years old, Garret T. Willie, from Campbell River, is making waves in the blues scene with his mature sound and incredible guitar skills. Despite his youth, Willie possesses a deep well of emotion and experience that translates into powerful performances.
Campbell River resident Garret T. Willie is often regarded as an old soul, a Texas-style bluesman with a gift for guitar pyrotechnics that would not be out of place on the Mississippi Delta. The constant chatter about his age and experience is all the more impressive when you consider his background and the fact that Willie is largely self-taught. He’s just 25 years old, and split his time growing up between Kingcome Inlet on the central coast of B.C.
, Alert Bay on Cormorant Island, a 45-minute ferry ride from Port McNeill, and Campbell River, where he was born. The soft-spoken rocker downplayed his reputation in a recent Times Colonist interview, and seemed almost sheepish when talking about his talent. “I’ve got a lot of outdated bio stuff out there,” he said, chuckling. “I don’t really think about all that age-related stuff too much, I just kind of play what I feel. I have a deep well of emotion to draw from, whether that’s fun times or pain. When I’m up there on stage, it all comes full circle. Not to sound too out there, but everything that has happened to me through my life, my experiences, leads up to that moment.” The age-centric narrative which surrounds Willie’s story in the press isn’t incorrect, despite his objections. He does, in fact, sound well beyond his years, and not simply because he’s playing a form of electric blues born a century ago. His baritone is a cavernous wail, a cross between the lacquer-stripping growl of recent Buddy Guy recordings and the output of new-school blues phenom Marcus King. And his guitar playing is incendiary, suggesting a guitarist decades his senior. Willie said he first picked up a guitar 18 years ago at the age of seven; it was an old acoustic that was laying around the house, Willie said. He was given a guitar of his own the following year, a black Fender Stratocaste
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