Tyler Bryant was spotted on YouTube by guitar legend Jeff Beck. Photo/ Getty Images
Tyler Bryant was spotted on YouTube by guitar legend Jeff Beck. Photo/ Getty Images
Song of the day is from a Texas-born guitar-slinger, Tyler Bryant and his band The Shakedown.
Aged 26 and from the small town of Honeygrove, when he was 11 his pawn shop acoustic guitar needed restringing, and so the family went to the next town where there was a musicshop.
Sitting there was a 60-year-old black musician named Roosevelt Twitty who asked Tyler if he played the blues.
Tyler replied that he did not know what they were, and Roosevelt offered to teach him for free ... now this is Texas, and 15 years ago issues were worse than they are now, but his parents agreed and for the next 5 years Tyler learned his craft playing electric, acoustic, slide and dobro.
At aged 17 Tyler left school and shifted to Nashville where he met drummer Caleb Crosby, bassist Noah Denny and guitarist Graham Whitford (son of Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford) and Tyler's big break came in 2011 when his hero, guitar god Jeff Beck, asked him to open for him, after Beck had seen Tyler playing on YouTube.
The first album, Wild Child, was not well received, but they kept at it releasing a six-song EP called Wayward in '15 which includes today's song, and they have released a self-titled album this year.
I can only assume they are a killer live band as they have opened for Gun's 'n' Roses, AC/DC, ZZ Top, BB King, Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon and (unsurprisingly) Aerosmith ... if you like this song check out the songs Mojo Working and Devils Keep and if you want hard rock, then try Who I Am, which is a song on video game Guitar Hero 5 and is really s888-hot stuff. All are on YouTube ... PLAY IT LOUD - you know it sounds better that way.
