Jon Hines - Memphis Sun (2025)

Jon Hines is a Canadian singer, guitar and occasional harmonica player well known in his country, but also in USA and UK. He started playing solo only backed by his guitar and, after a long tour around Australia, he decided it was time to give a turn to his career and start playing in a band format. He formed a trio and in 2025 they competed at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, reaching the semifinals.

Now he presents a new album where he made up his mind and to record it with a full band formed by himself on guitar, vocals and harmonica in one song, Kevin Fletcher in harmonica, George Wolf in bass and vocals, Cameron Palmer in drums and the collaboration of Victoria Hines in backing vocals on a song.

The recording gathers seven songs framed in roots blues with touches of North Mississippi Hill country blues, where Jon Hines develops his peculiar guitar style that could be defined as swampy, rough and raspy, along with a disturbing and sometimes haunted voice that serves him to honestly introduces his songs that mainly show the concerns of a sincere musician gifted with good doses of credibility who, If he persists in the attempt, he can become on the next future an outstanding performer of a tough bare and raw blues, but that will directly and deeply go into listener’s hearts.