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It’s why he’s been tapped to complement everyone from Joe Bonamassa to The Fabulous Thunderbirds on stage or in the studio. It’s why he’s received several nominations for the Blues Music Award. It’s why he’s covered Living Blues Magazine and incited the applause of Guitar World, Guitar Player, Guitar, and many others. It’s why he’s amassed a beloved solo discography streamed millions of times.

It’s also why his 2022 seventh full-length album, Heartache By The Pound, scorches as much as it does. Produced by Fletcher at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabam, it proudly affirms him as a preeminent 21st century Blues man.

Born and raised in Bellflower, CA, he built a foundation for the Blues in the Compton church where his fahter served as pastor. Inspired by his older brother Walter (seventeen years Kirk’s senior), he cut his teeth in front of the congregation, playing guitar regularly in the church until his early twenties. He eventually wound up touring as a guitarist in Kim Wilson’s Blues Revue and recording on Wilson’s Smokin’ Joint [2001], which garnered a GRAMMY® Award nomination.

In between live guest spots for Cyndi Lauper and Michelle Branch, he performed on The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Painted On. Other various highlights spanned a stint in The Mannish Boys and handling lead guitar for Eros Ramazzotti. He joined Bonamassa for legendary performances and live records, including Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks and Live at the Greek Theater. The latter notably bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.

Meanwhile, Kirk’s 2018 solo offering, Hold On, cracked the Top 15 of the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart and garnered a nod in the category of “Best Contemporary Blues Album” at the 2019 Blues Music Awards

The 2020 follow-up My Blues Pathway arrived to widespread acclaim. Guitar World put it best, “there’s a sweetness and authenticity to his approach that screams class.”

While living in Switzerland during the Global Pandemic, he spent time crate digging, picking up European pressings of Blues and Soul records. At the same time, he wrote Heartache By The Pound on Garage Band, collaborating with friend and legendary bassist Richard Cousins as a primary co-writer.

“I got back to my gospel and blues roots,” he explains. “I really wanted to do a Blues record, so I sat down and allowed the songs to take over. I was listening to all of this music and thinking of Albert King. He’s playing in a Soul band, but he’s still a Blues man.

I’m a Blues man, and I write about life. That’s the concept.”

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