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Tinsley Ellis

Presented by The Bull Run Restaurant

February 3, 2012

"In the last five years, no one has released more consistently excellent blues albums than Atlanta's Tinsley Ellis..." - Philip Van Vleck, Billboard.com

Hard-rocking blues-soaked guitarist/vocalist/song-writer Tinsley Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, ...More

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