The best and brightest new talents who are ripping up the rulebook, exploring new genres – and proving once and for all that the ’s not dead.
“The is dead.” The chances are you’ve heard that phrase, or some variation on it, over the last few years – it seems that barely a month passes without a celebrity or mainstream news outlet reading the last rites to the humble six-string.
last year proclaimed: “The electric itself appears to be facing an existential threat.” Even Eric Clapton has had a go, musing in 2017 that, “maybe the is over…”
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The has simply done what the has always done – evolved. From Robert Johnson to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin to Nirvana, Oasis to John Mayer, the has remained the defining tool of popular music over the last 100 years because of its chameleonic ability to change with the trends.
By way of evidence, we present The New Breed – 50 diverse young musicians who represent the most exciting new talent in contemporary music. Some are boundary-pushing virtuosos, or sonic experimentalists planting the flag in hitherto unexplored genres, others are claiming the instrument for themselves in spaces where in the past, they’ve not always been welcome.
The is not dead, the is thriving – read on to see what a wonderful six-string world The New Breed are building…
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In the space of a fortnight last year, this publication asked modern blues titans Gary Clark Jr and Eric Gales the same question – who’s the next big thing? The answer in both cases was one word: ‘Kingfish’. Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (featured above) grew up in the blues heartland of Mississippi and from his earliest days, the 20-year-old has been determined to keep the tradition alive and bring the music to a new generation.
Ingram’s talent attracted attention almost immediately and quickly saw him marked out for big things – he played his first gig at 11 and was playing for the Obamas at the White House by the time he was 15 – but unlike so many prodigies, Ingram hasn’t stagnated, instead continuing to develop his tone, technique and feel. “I play more tastefully now, ” he told us. “I was getting a lot of, ‘Man, you’re good, but you need to slow down.’ Even players who played fast were telling me to slow down! You can never stop learning, so I took their knowledge and applied it to what I do.”
The 1975’s frontman Matt Healy is one of the most outspoken and charismatic figures in pop, so perhaps it should be no surprise that the band’s prodigiously talented lead ist Adam Hann doesn’t seem to get much attention, despite being in one of the biggest bands on the planet. But a closer listen to their varied back catalogue demonstrates the remarkably chameleonic nature of Hann’s playing – from intricate -pop to angular 80s neo-soul to abrasive lo-fi punk, he can inhabit them all, while always sounding uniquely like himself.
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Filipino-British songwriter Beabadoobee (aka Bea Kristi) first signalled her songwriting talent at the age of 16, when a fan uploaded her song
to YouTube, and it quickly went viral. She was snapped up by hip indie-pop kingmakers Dirty Hit, and in the two years since has honed her sound away from the standard acoustic singer-songwriter fare, pulling in a trove of 90s influences and picking up a Mustang to create languid grunge-pop tunes that sound like they’re beamed straight from 1995.
If you were a Grammy-nominated producer who’s worked with everyone from Alabama Shakes to John Legend, you’d probably be happy with that, right? Well, Blake Mills seems determined to make even the most industrious of us feel inadequate, by also demonstrating that he’s a fine songwriter and singer who’s in demand as both a deft acoustic fingerstylist and wonderfully melodic country player.
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If you want to walk onto Nashville’s famous Broadway holding a Telecaster, you better have your chops in order, because otherwise everyone and their grandma (literally) on that street will leave you in the dust. So when a teenage Daniel Donato saw the Don Kelley Band performing there – the legendary working band that spawned Brent Mason and Johnny Hiland – and declared he’d found the band he wanted to join. Two years of badgering and woodshedding later, and Donato earned his way in. Still only 20, Donato has since struck out on his own and established himself as one of the most in-demand players in Nashville.
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, feels like an 11-track residency inside Davey Newington’s head. And what a compellingly unique place it is, too – mashing up funk, soul, classic rock, pop and world music into a giant psychedelic smoothie, with Newington delivering hook after hummable hook along the way. He’s earned himself some famous fans, too, with Neil Young, Bob Dylan and both Gallagher brothers tagging Boy Azooga for support slots in the last year.
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Whitford is best known as the lead foil to Phoebe Bridgers, but his solo work shows off the full palette of his remarkably inventive playing, blending the atmospheric esoteric touches that he uses to such great effect in his day job with restrained country-tinged acoustic work and powerful electrified moments.
It’s often said that the best communicators don’t waste their words, and 29-year-old Kentuckian Ian Noe isn’t one to overshare – he lets his spellbinding songs do the talking for him. Heavily influenced by legendary country-folk ist John Prine, Noe’s intricate fingerstyle provides the perfect bedrock to his wonderful vignettes of smalltown America.
It takes some chops to go on stage and trade licks with John Mayer every night, but Isaiah Sharkey knows exactly what he’s doing. After all, the 30-year-old has been playing Chicago’s jazz and blues clubs since he was 14 years old, and won a Grammy for his work on D’Angelo’s 2014 comeback album,
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“I try to give him his space so that he can be free to either play or not play – my goal is to never be in his way, ” he told us of his tours with Mayer, which he fits in around his solo work and teaching. “But he’s like, ‘Man, no, play! Play out! I know you know the parts, so just have fun with it, do your thing!’”
Austin hasn’t had a bad record when it comes to producing good players – just ask Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson or Gary Clark Jr, and Jackie Venson might be the next name to add to that esteemed list. Despite attending the acclaimed Berklee College of Music, Venson didn’t pick up a until her final year in 2010. Since then, she’s developed a wonderfully lyrical bluesy style, her fuzzed-up Strat tones and infectious character making her a star of the Instagram scene.
Greta Van Fleet might get prickly when you compare them to Led Zeppelin, but given how rapidly the Michigan four-piece have exploded into the mainstream, it’s not just Josh Kiszka’s Plant-esque wail that they have in common. SG-toting 23-year-old ist Jake is the secret sauce in the GVF gumbo – blending bluesy feel, Southern-rock sizzle and yes, plenty of Pageisms, to create a wonderfully authentic classic-rock brew.
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The world is not short of blues-rock players – and with so much competition out there, it can be hard for even the most talented musicians to stand out, but Jared James Nichols has never had a problem being noticed. For the last decade, the 30-year-old Wisconsinite has been turning heads and pricking ears with his leonine locks, incendiary rock chops, unconventional technique and unique gear choices.
Key to what makes Nichols so unique as a rock- player is the fact that he plays exclusively with his fingers, never with a pick, giving a distinctive percussive and kinetic attack. And then there’s his choice of gear – the ist’s Epiphone signature model has proved a crossover hit thanks to the stripped-back simplicity of its jet-black finish, wrapover bridge and single dog-ear P-90. “There’s something magical about that pickup, ” he told us in 2015. “Yeah, it’s loud and it buzzes, but when it’s on, it’s on. They’re just so individual-sounding.”
Listening to Joey Landreth’s wonderfully expressive electric slide work, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was born with a bottleneck on his ring finger, but in fact the Bros. Landreth ist didn’t start playing slide until his early 20s – thinking that legend Sonny (no relation) already had the ‘slide playing Landreth’ thing sewn up. Now, whenever Joey picks up a slide and cuts loose, there’s no doubt there’s room for more than one slide genius called Landreth in the world…
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