Sweet Willie D

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Sweet Willie D

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Sweet Willie D

As a Deacon who got into the house rockin' business about ten years ago, Sweet Willie D is living proof that the art of blues shouting (which requires wailing, rapping, testifying, and bleeding charisma) is still alive and still very hip. All great bluesmen have a story. Whether it's Robert Johnson's deal with the devil or Stevie Ray Vaughn's tragic helicopter crash, history has shown that the blues builds it's legends on equal parts music and mythology. If that's true Sweet Willie D is already halfway to immortality. He's been a Baptist Deacon, a farmer, a martial arts instructor, a barbeque gourmet, a military man and a special education instructor, and that's all before his career in the blues began just ten years ago. In that short time Sweet Willie D has brought the old-fashioned art of blues shouting to New England and led his own band, The Continental Walk to rave reviews throughout the region. J Place (blues artist/ writer) Mason Neely (news correspondent, Metro West Daily News)