“A BURST OF BLUES ROCK…BOTH SPONTANEOUS AND CRAFTED.” — ROLLING STONE
“VITAL, LIVE, AND ESSENTIAL” — LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE
“BEYOND GENRE CONSTRAINTS — THE OXFORD AMERICAN
“GROOVE HEAVY HILL-COUNTRY BLUES” — GLIDE MAGAZINE
“FLAME-ON PSYCHEDELIC FUTURE BLUES” — AMERICAN STANDARD TIME
“THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT THE DIRTY SOUTH” —AMERICAN SONGWRITER
“GRITTY BLUES FULL OF EMOTION” — DAYTROTTER
BIO
Reed Turchi is a GRAMMY Award Winning, EMMY Award Nominated musician and poet from Swannanoa, North Carolina, who first learned to play guitar in North Mississippi from RL Burnside’s longtime sideman Kenny Brown, and who has been touring the US and Europe since 2010.
Hailed by the Oxford American as an artist “beyond genre constraints,” Turchi’s signature "slide guitar & kudzu boogie" sound has been celebrated by Rolling Stone as "a burst of blues rock…both spontaneous and crafted," as "vital, live, and essential" by Living Blues Magazine, and has been featured by NPR, PBS, KEXP, American Songwriter, No Depression, and many more.
WORLD ON FIRE, Turchi's latest album, was declared "a striking exercise in inspired simplicity" by No Depression, and explored a more intimate atmosphere, reminescent of Muddy Waters' "Folk Singer" acoustic album and Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska." American Blues Scene hailed the album as "a hypnotic blend of slide-guitar and snare-brush rhythm," while Pop Matters said listening to it is "like listening to an old 78rpm blues recording without the scratches and static."