CLIPS AND COMMENTARY FROM CANADA'S BEST KNOWN UNDISCOVERED OLD WHITE BLUESMAN

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Brandon Isaak at the 2024 Maple Blues Awards


Here's a tune that Brandon Isaak played at the Maple Blues Awards soiree. He was my "discovery" of the Summit, although I knew who he was and had watched him on YouTube but that guy knocked it out of the park with his showcase at the Blues Summit but when he hit the stage at the Awards show and announced that he was going to play "Reconsider Baby", one of the old nuggets that you've heard a million times, I went "Awwww..."

But from the first notes, it was like hearing that song for the first time. And his guitar tone was amazing. I ran into him at dinner the day before and asked what kind of pedal he used, he said no pedals, "but I've got a really good cord".