Ben Poole plus Gavin Coulson Band and The Welsh T Band
“His phrasing belies his years. Definitely one to watch.”
Guitarist magazine
“Amazing…I really loved his playing”
Jeff Beck
“A really good guitar player!”
Gary Moore
“This is a young man to look out for as he is no doubt a rising talent and should be supported when he comes to a local venue.”
Blues Matters
When you hear comments such as the above from two of the worlds’ greatest guitar players and some of the leading UK guitar and blues magazines you just know they have heard something very special. Twenty-five year old Ben Poole is currently being described as the most exciting young blues/roots artist to come out of the UK for a long, long time. A talented guitarist, singer and songwriter with obvious blues/rock/soul/R’n’B/country and Pop influences it’s hard to categorise the style and genre of this young man’s music. The past few years has seen Ben Poole’s profile raise far beyond expectation, his name cropping up regularly in Europe’s biggest selling guitar magazine Total Guitar who named Ben as “the guitarist to watch out for”. A Ben Poole live show is certainly very energetic and not to be missed, giving the audience just what they want, an audience likes to be entertained and Ben and the band never fail to deliver.
Ben was voted ‘Best Newcomer’ by Blues Matters magazine in their 2011 readers poll, was nominated for three awards at the British Blues Awards in 2011, including Best Young Artist and Best Original Song and represented the UK at the 2012 European Blues Challenge to be held in Berlin in March last year, Ben coming third out of nineteen entries from nineteen different countries. Most recently, Ben was runner up in the 2013 British Blues Awards
