About Me
www.mikehenderson.com
Mike Henderson is a veteran songwriter and award winning musician on the Nashville scene. He has recorded with such artist as Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler, Albert King, Hank Williams, jr., Johnny Lang, Peter Rowan, Guy Clark, John Hiatt, Sting, Delbert McClinton, Bob Seger, Bo Diddley, Faith Hill, Lucinda Williams, Nitty Gritty Dirt band and many others. Mike’s songs have been recorded by a number of acts including the Dixie Chicks, Kenny Rogers, Daryl Worley, Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Travis Tritt, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Solomon Burke, Marty Stuart, Gary Allan and Randy Travis.
"Mike Henderson leaps from the roles of songwriter and guitarist to that of frontman...Henderson’s muscular brand of barroom music blends the best elements...Powerful stuff is an apt description."
--Rolling Stone
"Already well known around his native Nashville as a formidable and innovative picker, Henderson brings a bluesy edge and authenticity ..to the party with plenty of attitude and a distinctive point of view."
--Billboard
"Heretofore, Mike Henderson has been one of the most underrated honky-tonk singers in country. "First Blood" (Dead Reckoning) marks him as one of the most underrated white bluesmen, too. His "Pony Blues" is so adept that Johnny Winter might envy it, and his Chicago blues evoke the spirit of Elmore James. Plus there’s "Pay Bo Diddley", on which Henderson and his band pay some dues."
--Playboy
"Henderson may be best known as a songwriter (Patty Loveless, Travis Tritt), but these blistering seamless blues covers prove he’s a remarkable guitarist and frontman. The Bluebloods, an impromptu band ..,are as tight as a too-small shoe. Look for this one to show up on best-of-the-year lists."
--Entertainment Weekly
"If an army rides on its stomach, a band rides on its rhythm section. When the combination of piano, bass, drums and electric guitar is as neck-snappingly strong as it is on the Bluebloods’ first album, you don’t need other instruments, original compositions or even many original ideas to deliver a knockout blow. Whipping thru the blues bombshells like Hound Dog Taylor’s "Give Me Back My Wig" and Elmore James’ "Mean Mistreater", Henderson-a 43 year-old Missourian who is as raspingly good on harmonica as he is on slide guitar-and his Nashville cats don’t even try to reinvent rocking roadhouse boogaloo. ...the Bluebloods make the familiar trajectories of the blues glow like tracer bullets in the night."
--People
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