Wisconsin Music Podcast

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AMPLIFYING WISCONSIN MUSICIANS WMPodcast interviews local Wisconsin musicians on their journey from their first group, solo endeavor, hired studio work, local community groups, and more, to their present day activities in the local music scene. We will also talk with music businesses and music organizations. We’ll talk about their origin story, what their influences are, what they do to hone their talents and their skills to be where they are today. What they feel is not only suffocating the local music scene, but, better yet, what they feel is helping push the local scene into the limelight. Also hear about gigs they’ve played that made an impression on them and why. . . and much more.

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Monday Mar 22, 2021

WMP 026: Young Blues Guitarist, Soulful Strings: Stephen Hull and the Essence of Blues

Monday Mar 22, 2021

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Episode 026

The Stephan Hull Experience

Experience the Blues through the heart and soul of Stephen Hull, self taught blues artist since age 14. Dubbed a young B.B. and Albert King

22-year-old Stephen Hull of Racine picked up the guitar eight years ago and taught himself how to play the blues.

He started the Stephen Hull Experience in 2018 and has been playing gigs in southeastern Wisconsin and the Chicago-area.

His band was a finalist in the 2021 Interstate Music Competition — one of seven out of a couple hundred. The band submitted three songs in a video audition and walked away with silver just this past month.

Watch Stephen Hull Experience perform "Killing Floor":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffckWPibt4s&feature=youtu.be

Hull says when he is playing the blues, he can feel himself flow through his guitar and the music takes over his entire body.

“I've had several moments on stage where it's just like, I'm not playing that guitar, I don't know who is but it sure sounds good,” he says. “It has to come from your soul and has to be a 100% vibe.”

When it comes to influences, Hull cites Albert King as his main influence along with B.B. King, Elmore James and modern blues artist Jontavious Willis.

Blues was started by rural Black communities in the deep south beginning in the late 1800s. That cultural influence over the past century, Hull says: “It is, in fact, a story. Whether most people realize it or not, you can't separate the Black from the blues."

"It's 100% a cultural story that is, just, in a more, I want to say, digestible form," he says, "We're able to listen to it, get something out of it, and move on about our day ... a pleasant sounding song, we all kind of digest on some level.”

With the blues being contemporaneous with slavery ending in the United States, Hull says part of the beauty in blues comes from the fact that this music was created by people looking to turn painful experiences into positive ones.

“One thing I find to be beautiful about the Black experience is that no matter what, there's always going to be that silver lining that someone can make out of it. Resilience is just one of the most astonishing things that I've come to recognize about the Black community,” he says.

Wisconsin Music Podcast

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WMP 026: Young Blues Guitarist, Soulful Strings: Stephen Hull and the Essence of Blues

WISCONSIN MUSIC PODCASTWMP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/WI_Music_Podcast

AMPLFYING WISCONSIN MUSICEpisode 026

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WISCONSIN MUSIC PODCAST
WMP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/WI_Music_Podcast

AMPLFYING WISCONSIN MUSIC
Episode 026