Monster Mike Welch is one of the East Coast's best-loved Blues guitarists and, at 28 years old, already a fifteen-year veteran of the international Blues scene. Mike burst onto the Blues scene at the age of thirteen, when he was publicly given the nickname "Monster Mike" by Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd at the opening of the first House of Blues club. By the time he released his first CD three years later(These Blues Are Mine / Tone-Cool), he had aleady played with blues legends like Junior Wells, James Cotton, and Johnny Copeland, and won the 1995 Boston Music Award for Best Blues Act. The rest of the 90's found Mike touring North America and Europe, and featured in USA Today, People, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and NPR. Mike's varied career has seen him lauded as a teen virtuoso, valued as a supportive sideman, and respected as a maturing Blues artist, with his trademark biting guitar and clear, soulful voice.
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