"SPECIAL GUEST" STEVE DITZELL

VOCALS & LEAD GUITAR

Steve spent many years touring with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor. He is influenced by Otis Rush's "Singing String" sound more than Stevie Ray Vaughan, yet prefers to keep the band rocking hard in the way the late SRV did. His vocals are confident, showing the lessons he's learned over the years and his slide playing is sometimes haunting, other times frantic, exploring the sounds of Muddy Waters. He's played with many great musicians, from Big Mama Thornton, Lee Oskar to Stevie Ray Vaughan, A.C. Reed and Fenton Robinson. His performance credentials begin in 1975. Steve performs with his band Blue Lightning in Chicago and at area clubs as a headliner!