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12-19-2025 "Eric Gales is one of the best, if not the best, guitar player in the world" Joe Bonamassa “He is absolutely incredible” Carlos Santana “How Eric Gales isn’t the hugest name in rock guitar is a total mystery” Dave Navarro On May 9, 2019, Eric won the Blues Music Award for 'Blues Rock Artist of the Year.' If you're not familiar with blues guitarist Eric Gales, go now & find his albums or a live show and check him out. Eric is a truly explosive guitarist - the kind whose playing makes scores of other guitarists wonder what the hell they've been doing with their lives. After his tour with guitar legend Walter Trout, where critics and fans alike were on their feet screaming whenever Eric took a solo. He is rising so fast now that no one can stop him. Eric's siblings began teaching him licks in the style of Hendrix and Albert & BB King at age four. By the time he was ten years old he was playing blues competitions with his brother Eugene backing him on bass. And although Gales plays a right-handed guitar "upside-down" (with the bass E string on the bottom), he is not naturally left-handed - he was taught by his brother, who is left-handed, and he never second-guessed the untraditional technique. Guitar World Magazine's Reader's Poll named Eric the "Best New Talent" in 1991. During this time he had two rock radio hits "Sign of the Storm" and "Paralyzed" and had spots on TV shows such as The Arsenio Hall Show. In 1994 he performed with Carlos Santana at Woodstock '94. In 1995, he teamed up with both of his brothers to record the album, "Left Hand Brand" as the Gales Brothers. And he has released a string of highly acclaimed albums including "That's What I Am," "Crystal Vision," "The Psychedelic Underground," "The Story of My Life," "Layin' Down the Blues," "Relentless," "Transformation," "Live 2012," "Middle of the Road" and 2019's "The Bookends." As both an African-American left-handed guitarist of extraordinary ability and an expressive vocalist, it is natural for people to compare Eric to Hendrix. But Eric has developed a unique hybrid blues/rock sound that also draws upon influences as diverse as Albert King and Frank Gambale. A unique amalgam of styles, Eric Gales stands head and shoulders among other guitarists in his genre.
