Meet the US-born Lahdahn boy giving the blues some street smarts. Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.
40 year old bluesman Stephen Dale Petit is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who joins the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Seasick Steve, Otis Taylor, Michael Powers and Brits like Aynsley Lister and Oli Brown in the current resurgence of the blues.

Originally from California, an early meeting with Albert King gave Petit an appetite for the blues and by his mid-teens he was performing in bars and clubs across California five nights a week. Moving to the UK, Petit played alongside Phil May (The Pretty Things), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and Ian Stewart (The Rolling Stones) before earning a crust by busking in tube stations across London. In 2007 Petit released his debut album Guitararama, financed entirely by busking, and initially available only on the Underground.

Influenced by B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tampa Red, Leadbelly and Son House, Petit also cites British Blues pioneers Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies as influences – today’s free track A Better Answer itself sounds as British (and as mean and as vintage) as Norton motorbikes, razor gangs, and mods versus rockers street battles.

As Classic Rock’s resident bluesman Henry Yates put it: “It’s difficult these days to put a new spin on such an old genre as the blues but Petit has managed it”.

Download A Better Answer from here.

Catch Petit on the road:
22 May: Tivoli Theatre, WIMBORNE, Dorset, with Mick Taylor special guest
20 June: Blues On The Farm, CHICHESTER
25 June: The Olive Branch, North Devon Fringe Festival, BARNSTAPLE

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