"Blind-Dog" Gatewood is a native of the Motor City and has been a music teacher, instrument technician and professional musician since the age of 16.
His early exposure to some of the diverse musical influences in Detroit created the framework for his extensive mastery of the blues via R&B, funk, rock, and fusion.
He is an award-winning one-man act who has polished his chops in places as diverce as the Sierra foothills, the Mojave Desert, Mississippi delta and the streets of New Orleans. In September, 2002 he took the first prize in Colorado at the Telluride Acoustic Blues competition. First place winners are honored with a performance on the main stage the following day at the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival for over seven thousand attendees. That same year he won the Kentuckiana Blues Society’s Blues Challenge out of Louisville Kentucky and represented the Society at the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. In 2004 “Blind-Dog†was a Finalist for the 1st Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) In the category of AMERICANA/ROOTS/AAA, for his song “TELLURIDEâ€. and a Simi finalist in 2006 in the International Song Contest (ISC), Blues category, for his song “Monkey On My Backâ€. In June of 2005 "Blind-Dog" took first place in the Memphis Blues Society's Battle of the Blues solo division on Beale Street and represented them at the 22nd annual International Blues Challenge 2006 in Memphis. Truly, a one-man band, "Blind-Dog" is now based out of Newburgh, Indiana.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.bdgatewood.comTrack List:
1. Telluride
2. Harpoon
3. One Kind Favor
4. Hold Dat' Bus
5. I Hear the Blues Callin' and the Devil Is Near !
6. Monkey On My Back
7. River of Blood
8. Flip Flop Fly, Hootchie Cootchie Man
9. Street Corner Stomp
10. Hey Bartender
11. Papa Was a Jockey
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