You could call it intelligent blues roots with a bit of freeform, jazzy Zen. Phelps is just a bit more mystical and complicated to understand, but with a trance inducing, meditative quality. Zen” is to the blues what Zen is to meditation (the name is derived from the 1999 album title). Like his nickname implies, the “Shine Eyed Mr.
Kelly Joe Phelps approaches the guitar with broad influences.
Don’t expect to hear note-for-note covers of old songs. The term “contemporary acoustic blues” fits well, although anything he plays sways a bit into the realm of the mysterious. Kelly Joe Phelps is a superlative musician, deeply rooted in the blues, but also very eclectic in his styling. Kelly Joe Phelps is a highly talented guitarist who emerged from the Burnside Records scene in Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s.
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