Mike Welch is a Boston-area blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who has released several albums on the Rounder Tone-Cool subsidiary The fact that he's so good and so young is part of the reason why they called him "Monster" Welch got this name from actor/comedian/Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd, although the moniker was dropped following his second albumWelch's releases for Tone-Cool, which essentially launched his career as an international touring act, include a 1996 release, These Blues Are Mine, and his 1997 album Axe to Grind He began his blues education with his father's record collection, and he picked up the guitar at age eight and tried to emulate the sounds he heard from recordings by Magic Sam, Earl Hooker and BB King Welch also studied the rock & roll and blues-rock records of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but after hearing more of Albert King and other blues guitarists, he found his calling in life When he was 11, his parents began driving him to blues jams around Boston In the clubs, Welch learned from some of the greats of that scene, including Ronnie Earl and Luther "Guitar Jr
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