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Edwin Holt

Edwin Holt

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Genre: Blues

City: Dallas, TX

Web site: http://www.edwinholt.com

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Edwin Holt grew up in the piney woods of East Texas and has been singing the Blues on national festival venues for nearly fifteen years opening shows for legends like Bobby "Blue" Bland and Johnnie Taylor. When Holt steps on the stage and breaks open his fishing tackle box full of blues harps, an amazing transformation takes place that even he doesn't understand.

Holt first shook hands with the music at the tender age of six, thanks to an uncle who just happened to be a prison guard at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Holt sat on the front row, surrounded by cigarette smoke and prisoners chained together at the arms and legs, while Jerry Lee Lewis essentially destroyed the piano and brought the house down. Twelve years later, after attending the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival, the spark was rekindled. Holt played the bars and juke joints in Memphis and learned from Delta legends like James ‘‘Son’’ Thomas and Willie Foster before moving back to East Texas and eventually settling in Dallas.

Holt and his 12 piece Conspiracy Band are a fixture in the south Dallas blues scene and continue to pave their way to international recognition.

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