Best Blues Guitarist 2018

We are pleased to announce that Kirk Fletcher has been nominated in the 2018 Best Blues Guitarist category of the MusicRadar. We hope you place your vote. > Voting page Voting closes at midnight on Wednesday 21 November and results will be rolled out on MusicRadar from Monday 3 December 2018.

Hold On – New Release
coming October 19

Hold On as an album is so solid, so listenable and so moving that the word “monumental” comes to mind. It sets the bar for modern Rhythm & Blues albums to come, from Kirk or otherwise, and it reminds the world that the genre is still as strong and meaningful as ever. ~ by Mat Koehler With his …

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coming October 19″

Kirk does a podcast for the “No Guitar is Safe” with Jude Gold

Wielding his Fender Stratocaster, Kirk stops by No Guitar Is Safe headquarters and jams with host Jude Gold from GUITAR PLAYER Magazin. Kirk shares nine or ten of his favorite blues shuffle approaches, and demonstrates some of the wonderful gospel licks he learned as a youth playing in the Compton church built by his father, pastor …

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Kirk goes to Bristol to record his new Album

Joined by Jonny Henderson and Matt Brown he has recorded his new album. While touring in the UK last September Kirk had the idea to make a record with the great organ player Jonny Henderson. Kirk first met Jonny through his good friend Matt Scofield with who Jonny has toured extensively with for over 20 …

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Kirk Fletcher in Brasil: Interview in Portuguese

On my Brasil Tour in August 2017 I meet the music magazine Piapara Cultural for an interview. Read here the whole interview in Portuguese: http://piaparacultural.com.br/entrevista-kirk-fletcher-atracao-desta-sexta-do-sesc-jazz-blues/

Kirk is a TC Electronic Blues Master

TC Electronic released the “Blues Masters TonePrint”. Kirk Fletcher, Johnny A, Josh Smith and Charlie Sexton were the brains behind this superb TonePrint package featuring compression, delay, reverb and vibe tones perfect for the blues riffing. Read more Kirk is very proud to be part of this campaign. Check his other TonePrints he could work …

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Eminence Speaker welcomes Kirk Fletcher

Eminence Speaker LLC officially welcomes Kirk Fletcher to the family of endorsing artists. He is proud to be choosen as a memeber of the family. Kirk found his tone with the GA-SC64. Website >>

The Blues Magazine: Straight Outta Compton

Not many people would choose to move to Compton, the notorious south LA neighbourhood immortalised by NWA. But that’s just what guitarist Kirk Fletcher’s parents did when he was a child. “All of my family is from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, but I grew up in southern California, a little suburb of LA called Lakewood,” says …

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