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Monster Mike Welch is tagged as: blues, guitar, blues rock, rock, classic rock

Mike Welch is a Boston-area blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who has released several albums on the Rounder Tone-Cool subsidiary. The fact that he’s so good and so young is part of the reason why they called him “Monster.” Welch got this name from actor/comedian/Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd, although the moniker was dropped following his second album.
Welch’s releases for Tone-Cool, which essentially launched his career as an international touring act, include a 1996 release, These Blues Are Mine, and his 1997 album Axe to Grind.
He began his blues education with his father’s record collection, and he picked up the guitar at age eight and tried to emulate the sounds he heard from recordings by Magic Sam, Earl Hooker and B.B. King. Welch also studied the rock & roll and blues-rock records of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but after hearing more of Albert King and other blues guitarists, he found his calling in life.
When he was 11, his parents began driving him to blues jams around Boston. In the clubs, Welch learned from some of the greats of that scene, including Ronnie Earl and Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson. Welch was invited to play at the opening of the first House of Blues club in Cambridge, Mass. in 1992. Aft...
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Top 10 Monster Mike Welch Songs
A Thrill To Be Alive
All The Love In The World
One Of Those Days
Cryin' Hey!
Give Me Time
Searching For An Angel
Joaquin Riley
Everybody
They Call Me Monster Mike
My Father's Son
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Cryin' Hey!
Just Like It Is
Axe to Grind
These Blues Are Mine
Adding Insight to Injury
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