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Jim Beaugez

“Those tubes need to be burning. As I put it to the band, I like to smell dinner cooking”: With his gourmet phrasing and R&B hot sauce, D.K. Harrell is the blues hero you need in your life right now

D.K. Harrell poses with his Gibson ES-355 Custom in cherry red against a blue-green background.

The modern blues scene is full of guitar players who represent the harder, more rocking side of the genre. But Louisiana-bred guitarist and frontman D.K. Harrell comes from a different school of blues, and he’s quick to separate himself from the pack.

“I’m trying to show people that it doesn’t have to be blues rock in order to be contemporary,” says Harrell, whose second album, Talkin’ Heavy, pulls more from the R&B side of the coin than blustery, rockin’ blues.

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