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Tinsley Ellis Lays Down Some Tasty Leads in "28 Days"

Planet Tone artist Tinsley Ellis has been posting killer blues and blues rock tunes weekly with "Basement Tapes". This one is no different with an absolutely smokin' groove. He lays into his wah-wah pedal with tasty solo and lead work backed by a lovely lush rhythm track. Tinsley never disappoints, always providing some of the sweetest blues and blues rock around   Tinsley Ellis · Tinsley Ellis - 28 Days   Catch the "Basement Tapes" weekly on Soundcloud. Tinsley also does a weekly acoustic segment every Sunday on Facebook. Tinsley Ellis plays Planet Tone Custom 1957 Humbuckers.

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Tinsley Ellis: Ice Cream in Hell - Fiery and Tasty!

ICE CREAM IN HELL Tinsley Ellis, Heartfixer Music BMI  If Blues is what soothes your soul, gets you through a pandemic or arms you in the daily trenches, then take a little ride down tin pan alley, to a little malt shop called… Ice Cream In Hell. If DNA ancestry tests could be done on the mitochondrial musical soul, then Tinsley Ellis’ results would undoubtedly include markers of family tree contributors, that would include King BB, Clapton, the Roberts ie. Johnson & Cray, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray (one ride in Tinsley’s guitar stable was indeed, formerly played by SRV). Hundreds of other souls would round out and fill in the genetic pool. Third-cousins-twice-removed might even include Big Mama, Lucinda…it’s possible...

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