Garrett T. Willie – Same Pain

Independent (inscription)

01 December 2023 (released)

01 December 2023

I'm listening to this debut album and digging through his extensive back catalog at the same time. He shouldn't sound this confident or this confident on his first album – except he does.

His dark and low vocals enhance some amazing rock and blues writing, and while his story contains a lot of pain, his playing explodes from the speakers as a jubilation of music.
He has clearly learned from the best and you can hear some faint echoes of stellar names like Howlin' Wolf or John Mellencamp, Stevie Ray Vaughan or Jerry Lee. Some of the beats reminded me of T. Rex at their best. But these are all points of his own music and he is a real talent.

The music varies between light and rocky and some really deep and dark blues, but it all comes from his own story and he gives you his story in the songs here.

The album breaks out with 'Make You Mine Tonight' and from there it's a rollercoaster of rock and blues and rock & roll with track after track catching a different part of the ear but never losing the bull.

An excellent debut and portends one hell of a career.