blues @ temperance | Alvin Youngblood Hart's Muscle Theory

This is special. He's won a Grammy, you'll have seen and heard him in 'Sinners'. He's worked with all the greats. He is one of the greats! The cosmic American love child of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray. Known as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to guitar gods Gary Moore & Mick Taylor. Alvin has recently appeared in, written songs for and worked on the soundtrack of the Ryan Cooglar movie “Sinners” which received rave reviews and sixteen Oscar nominations including for Best Original Score and Best Sound. His key contributions included the track: "Travelin'" and his rendition of the Charley Patton classic "Pony Blues". He also played guitar on multiple tracks throughout the score alongside Cedric Burnside, Bobby Rush, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard & Raphael Saadiq. Biography Mr. Hart was born in Oakland CA in 1963 to a family of post WWII Mississippi transplants. After a couple false starts, he began to play the guitar, in earnest, in 1977. “By that time, it had become obsessive competition among us teenage boys. The guitar was the video game of our day,” Hart says. The Hart family was never one to stay put. Spending his formative years on the West Coast, in the Midwest and the Mid-South surely influenced Alvin’s wide ranging musical perspective. “It really taught me to appreciate MUSIC for what it was… not because it was this or that genre. I have a great disdain for genre segregation. I try to avoid that practice”. “When I was 15 year old kid in my room, I would never believe that would someday play legendary venues like the Hollywood Bowl or Royal Albert Hall. You couldn’t have told me that I’d be in the studio with Taj Mahal, or play onstage with the Allman Bros. Band and members of Thin Lizzy. Some days, it’s a dream job…” More info: www.ayhmusic.com