Rising blues favorite John Nemeth performing at Fat Fish

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Multi-nominated and 2014 Blues Music Award “Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year” artist John Nemeth will be performing at Fat Fish Pub in Galesburg on Sunday night.

The Boise, Idaho native and Memphis resident, Nemeth, was nominated in five categories in 2013 by the Blues Music Award in categories that included: B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, and Soul Blues Album of the Year.

Online music database Allmusic noted that Nemeth is a “vocalist with great range, ability, and soulfulness” and has developed as a “top-notch blues harmonica player.”

As popular as blues music is, Nemeth says the audience still has a reaction to it.

“Where I’m coming from writing the music, it’s from a blues template and a blues philosophy,” Nemeth tells WGIL. “The way I like to use innuendo for fun. I like to sing songs about hard times. Stories about pain and stories about pulling yourself up and also the dirty old blues too, which is a lot of fun. I feel like I’m very much a blues songwriter in the way I approach the music.”

Németh says he immersed himself in the deep musical waters of the Bay area, absorbing more of the soul and funk grooves of what he calls “the early East Bay Grease sound” of San Francisco and Oakland bands in the early 2000s.

His reputation continued to grow, and his national debut album – “Magic Touch” in 2007, featuring Junior Watson on guitar – received an ecstatic response from fans and the media, and he was hailed as the new voice of the Blues.

“If it may be rock’n’roll or soul, most of the melodies are still derived out of the good old blues,” Nemeth says. “So, I still try and keep that connection to it cause that’s just the way I feel it.”

Tickets for Sunday’s 6:00 pm show at Fat Fish Pub are $20 and can be purchased via Eventbrite on the Fat Fish Facebook page.

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