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UK British Blues Award winner and 4 time European Blues Awards nominee Bex Marshall?s unique style of guitar playing is a combined technique of slide, blues rock, ragtime and roots pickin?.
Her voice is a powerful melting pot of old black woman?s heartache and rock diva soul. Bex is a writer of distinction and notability, she pushes the boundaries of blues, her songs have been called timeless, touches of genius, and now she tours internationally solo or with a three piece band which augments her unique style of of virtuoso playing, Bex is literally a musical tornado.
Biography
Born In Plymouth Devon she was the product of two very different family?s, one blue blooded landed gentry (her great grandfather was the Squire of Cornwall) and her mothers side Irish Romany (her great Grandmother was the original fairground fortune teller Madam Olga)
As a child at family gatherings her uncles would always play and stand her on the table to sing, at 11 years old she was given a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird by her Uncle David and started playing, she got hooked on instrumentals and classical guitar standards which stretched her fingers and gave her a great basis for her own music to develop, flamenco, ragtime, country chicken pickin?, rock and on to blues and roots where she is now in her element.
She always had a passion for travelling, its in her blood and trained as a croupier at 18 began her travels around the world working gaming tables on cruise liners to Park Lane even dealing illegal poker games in Amsterdam. She hitch hiked the coast of Australia on cattle trains and always with a guitar on her back living and storing tales.
Bex was asked to be the guest JANIS by ?Big Brother and the Holding Company?s original guitarist Sam Andrews on their their 2014 European Tour.
Discography
Bex Marshall?s lastest single release, ?I Can?t Look You In The Eye? Released on the 16th Oct 2019 through 26 Records Sony/Orchard, and the ?The House Of Mercy?, released Sept 17th 2012, received stunning reviews worldwide along with her recent stand out sessions recorded for the Paul Jones & Bob Harris?s BBC radio 2 shows, Bex has toured the record in the UK, USA, and Brazil in the last 12 months alone. The House Of Mercy only recently won 3rd Best British Blues Album of the year Award 2013 and is featured in DOWNBEAT magazine ?Best Album of the Year list 2013 with a rare 4 star review.
Guests musicians on her new record are Don Wayne Reno (banjo), Dale Reno (mandolin) & Jake Byers (acoustic bass) all from Hayseed Dixie. B J Cole (dobro), Eileen Healy (fiddle) and Brigitte DeMeyer adding backing vocals, along with The Bex Marshall Band of Barry Payne (acoustic bass), Crispin Taylor (drums), Danny Bryan (percussion), Toby Baker (keyboards) and newest edition, gospel singer Shola Adegorove.
Her second album ?KITCHEN TABLE? released May 2008 pushed Bex to number 13 in the USA ?UK artists chart? and number 20 in the USA national Americana Music Association Chart. (AMA Chart).
Bex first release ?BOOTLACE? was released on Numinous Records in 2002 and will be available for download shortly
Bex is now sponsored by Strinberg Guitars, Teye Guitars Ozark Guitars and the legendary guitar maker Chris Eccleshall (Clapton, Gallagher Bowie) with his partner Eddie Cameron
Bex is sponsored by DR strings, playing through AI Pro Audios PreAmp
??sounds like a breakthrough album?? Rock n Reel (R2) UK
??Marshalls album is of such class and maturity, without an apparent weakness or filler? ? Blues Matters UK
??As a writer she?s mastered the art of making new material sound like its been found in long forgotten vaults ?Net Rhythms UK
?..She has harnessed the power of the blues without resorting to cliché or plagiarism ? ? Spiral Earth UK
?..deserves wider recognition for her spit and saw dust vocals and fluid resonator guitar licks?Classic Rock Magazine UK
?..Marshalls competent axework has Mark Knopflers feathery touch? ? LA Weekly US
??the blues ?Black Guitar? culminates in a slide guitar clamour Derek Trucks would be pleased to call his own? ? Downbeat Magazine US
..a younger version of Bonnie Raitt. Seldom do we hear such blues inflected rawness in female guitar players and its so refreshing to hear it done with such authenticity and assurance? ? Folk and Roots Magazine UK
??..Bex Marshall?s voice draws up the ghosts of old blues women?s heartaches?, Outlaw Magazine US
??the absolute stand out on this album is Marshalls vocals? ? Root of Rock Magazine NZ
??.She has all those essential vocal frailties that make the difference between soul and soulful?, Folk and Roots Magazine UK
?.at last a woman who plays guitar like a goddess, sings like an angel, writes like Dylan and smiles like the devil? Booker T.
9 Nether Edge Road,
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire,
England,
S7 1RU.
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