Eddie 9V

Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories and youll find twelve of them on new studio album Saratoga, releasing November 22, 2024 on the fabled Ruf label. Its a record that will thrill both newcomers and fans who have trailed Eddie since the start, showcasing his fresh, fiery spin on Southern soul, blues, rock and funk, with his signature wit and sharp observations of modern America placing him squarely in the here-and-now. I do think its a wonderful road trip album, he nods.Eddie 9V has powered up. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local stage, the Georgia-born band leader announced himself as an artist to watch. But in the last few meteoric years, Eddies music has crossed oceans and airwaves, transcending his cult-hero status to become a beacon for fans of real music everywhere. Eddie 9V is something else, wrote the UKs Classic Rock. A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues youll hear all year.Check out the gig listings and youll find this rising star playing a bigger club every time he blows through town. Scan the charts and youll find his most recent album, 2022s Capricorn, locking horns with the giants of rock n roll. Capricorn debuted at #1 and that was a cool feeling for a week, until Bonnie Raitt kicked us off, reflects Eddie with a smile. But hey, thats a cool story to be able to sayWeve rode shotgun with Eddie for a couple of decades now. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he was playing guitar by the age of six (One of those with the speaker in it the most bang for your buck, yknow?). Even then, manufactured pop music held nothing for him, and his years at Union Grove High School were instead soundtracked by local heroes like Sean Costello, alongside his studies of older cats like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Freddie King and Rory Gallagher.I wanted to see what made them groove and tick, he explains. Ive been making up lyrics on the spot for years. I believe that came from my Uncle Brian at our family fish fries he taught me about what made people laugh and what kept the audiences attention.Coming up on his home states live circuit first with cover band The Smokin Frogs, then with highly rated blues-rockers The Georgia Flood Mason soon turned heads, even representing the Atlanta Blues Society at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. But his true birth as an artist came when he buried his birth name and adopted that striking solo moniker. A lot of people wanted me to be the Brooks Mason Blues Band, but thats been done, he reasons. I wanted to start from scratch and I aint never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.