Album Notes

BLINDMAN'S BLUES
Blindmans is a no-frills acoustic blues stripped down to the raw - one man, one guitar, & one evening.

Plain & simple, imperfect & unpolished - 12 string, resonator, and slide guitar mixed with passion, an empty wood floored room, a lamp, and a cold drink.

Listen, tap your foot, dig it...


ARTIST
Texas based Mark Searcy influences include pre-war bluesmen Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, & Lightnin' Hopkins.

- 2007 Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition - Finalist
- 2007 San Antonio Guitar Wars - Winner Best Acoustic Performance
- 2007 Texas Music Awards - "Musician of the Year" Finalist
- 2007 International Blues Challenge - Semi-Finalist
- 2006 TBS Blues Challenge - Winner Solo/Duo
- 2005 San Antonio Guitar Wars - Winner Best Acoustic Performance

CD REVIEW
Lucky Boyd, My Texas Music (www.mytexasmusic.com)

"Some people like the blues. Some don't. Even within the category of blues-lovers there is division. Some like the swampy Delta blues and some like the rock-influenced blues of, let's say, Stevie Ray. Hardcore blues lovers understand the beginning and roots of traditional blues music and therefore have an affinity for artists like Kirby Kelley, Keb'Mo', Lightnin' Hopkins, and T-Bone Walker. It's that tinny acoustic rhythmic chant, often played on slide guitar or resonator that binds true blues fans in a fundamental grass roots passion for all things bluesy. Meet Mark Searcy. Talent will not get you to the plane on which Mark Searcy exists. It requires being touched by something from beyond our comprehension. Performers like Searcy do not simply play their instruments, but rather become their instruments during a performance. Call it soul, call it a gift, or a midnight trade at a lonely cross road, no matter. Searcy has it. Hear this album and you'll be amazed that Searcy is a relative rookie on the music scene. Already an award-winning performer, Searcy stands to turn more than just a few heads in the near future. Goodness, just think where he'll be in ten years. Acoustic blues may be a narrow niche by popular standards, but Searcy is climbing his way to the top of the heap, twelve bars at a time." - Lucky Boyd, My Texas Music

MUSIC FROM MARK SEARCY ON CDBABY
"Slideaway" - 2007
"Blindman's Blues" - 2006
"Like Father, Like Son" - 2005