Mike Whellans is a one-man-blues-band explosion, the real thing, in fact the best 'solo blues band' any side of the Forth, and a keeper of the flame that burned so passionately in the work of this highly specialized form’s masters, including Doctor Isaiah Ross, Jesse Fuller and Whellans’ great British forerunner, Tony ‘Duster’ Bennett. Like all true bluesmen and women, when Whellans sings and plays, he means it & sings straight from the heart. His high energy show is a masterclass in good time blues, played without compromise. Not only is he his own man as a singer, guitarist and ace blues harpist, but he’s also his own rhythm section, too, noted for his show-stopping beatbox vocal percussion. Mike is a consummate bluesman and a brilliant songwriter and the joint will be jumping! "Jimmy Reed or Willie Dixon transplanted from Lake Michigan to the shores of Loch Lomond” (Utne Reader)