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Sweet Willie Tea entertaining at home in northern Michigan!
All about Sweet Willie Tea! (click here for Cidy Zoo)
Authentic American music with a bona fide, genuine, one-of-a-kind, one-man-band!
Willie has shared the stage with acts as diverse as Styx, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Roger Miller, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Larry McCray, Steven Page (Bare Naked Ladies), and many, many more. He has performed at venues from Key West to Canada. Whether on Delta-style bottleneck slide steel, 6 and 12-string acoustic, cigar box, diddly bow, or electric guitars, ukulele, harmonica, or keyboards, either solo as a “one-man-band” or as Sweet Willie and the Tea Bones, his shows are guaranteed crowd pleasers.
The new album is a terrific recording with an eclectic mix of songs performed on vintage cigar box guitars, resonators, acoustics... as a one-man-band. In a Spartan setting, you get an intimate ambiance with the marvel of a single artist controlling the rhythm, chordal, and melodic statement, all with one heartbeat... you've gotta love real blues.
Sweet Willie's signature six-string... Vintage instruments are his specialty!
I've won the Detroit Blues Society Blues Challenge TWICE!
AND I was a semi-finalist in Memphis at The 2013 International Blues Challenge!
I won the Canada South Blues Challenge!
AND I was a semi-finalist in Memphis at The 2011 International Blues Challenge!
Mr. Diddley Bow
On stage at the Windsor Blues Festival
On stage at the London International BluesFest
Playing the Diddley Bow.
Willie's roots are in the hills of northern lower Michigan, home to Amish communities and farmers who migrated to the city for jobs at the new horseless-carriage factories early in the 20th century. Willie's grandparents moved south and settled in Flint, Michigan.
Sweet Willie and the Tea Bones
He began playing guitar as a teenager and in the 1980's released one record with the punk rock band Toll.In the 90's he had a commercial success as front man for the blues/rock show band Cidy Zoo. Their Something for Everyone release, included the single Talk Louder, the classical crossover instrumental 25 Strings, and the popular Buick City Blues. All three received airplay. Talk Louder eventually charted at #15 on the AAA charts. After that success, the band went on hiatus for several years and Willie found other work as an artist and actor. Cidy Zoo eventually released a new single titled Waitin' On You.
Then an accident left Willie's left hand paralyzed.
Sweet Willie Tea ~ Delta Blues man!
Though he never missed a performance date, Willie depended on a brace to hold his fingers in place on the guitar as he learned to play the piano and harmonica. After a long year as a one-handed musician his arm slowly began to mend and Willie was able to relearn how to handle the guitar. That year of uncertainty inspired Willie to never take a moment of life or music for granted.
He decided to focus exclusively on recording and playing the blues.
In 2009, a chance meeting in the Key West airport with a musician/luthier who had two cigar box guitars led to Willie's discovery of a musical genre he'd never explored. It opened up the gates to the simple, hypnotic melodies of early American roots and blues music and it's primitive instruments.
He had found his musical muse.
To recreate the tradition of the original blues minstrels of early America, Willie began performing as a one-man-band in the style of his inspiration and fellow Flint resident the late Dr. (Isaiah) Ross: The Harmonica Boss. Willie uses vintage instruments like the diddley-bow, cigar box guitar, and resonators while singing and accompanying himself on percussion and the Mississippi saxophone (harmonica).
While he still performs with The Tea Bones, Sweet Willie can most often be found performing traditional blues and original songs as a one-man-band. Willie's shows feature historical facts about the instruments including turn-of-the-century cigar box guitars, dobros, diddley bows, a variety of other acoustic guitars, plus harmonica and, of course, his unique self-accompanying percussion.
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Video of Sweet Willie and the Tea Bones:
FYI: Song Samples from the demo (not the final CD): 10 Seconds More Sweet Willie Tea I Have Fallen Wise Man I Don't Know Why Teacher
(right click and save to download)
This is the brace U of M-Ann Arbor Hospital designed that I used till God gave me back my hand
~ Willie
Click here to listen to my most recent radio interview on Sunday Night Blues with Phillip Ryan:
In Schools Supporting Educational Outreach
Willie can also perform an educational blues review show featuring selections performed in chronological order and accompanied with facts and trivia about the artists and their material. It begins with pieces performed on vintage instruments starting with the earliest recordings of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers, classics by Sonny Boy Williamson, Rufus Thomas, and Tin Pan singers like Fats Waller. The show moves on to the transitional Chicago Blues of Muddy Waters and Albert King, country blues from the likes of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, continuing through the Memphis sounds of B.B. King, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, and ending with the blues derivative sounds of artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and contemporary Detroit style blues artists such as Larry McCray, with Willie's own style and material poured into the mix.
With an extensive background in Second City style improv theatre as both a director and performer, Willie brings lots of audience participation, good humor, and energy to engagements as he plays homage in his own way to the roots of American music.
Offering 30 minute, 45 minute, 1 hour and 2 hour sets as well as being able to provide an entire evening's entertainment in a club or special occasion setting, Willie's shows are scalable for any size venue. He has opened for national acts as well as worked in the smallest clubs and on street corners. He provides his own complete sound and light support and technicians (if needed) for venues up to 1,000 persons indoors or outdoors, or provides only back line gear and works with your front of house crew.
Sweet Willie's custom-made 3-String Cigar Box guitar. and yes it's really made from a cigar box and it is a smokin' blues machine!
To inquire about booking Sweet Willie Tea or the Tea Bones, please call:
810-762-5735
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