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Monster Mike Welch
One of Boston’s best-loved guitarists, Monster Mike Welch has been a fixture on the international blues scene for over twenty years and for the last 14 years has been the guitarist for the best blues band on the planet, Sugar Ray & the Bluetones. As leader of the Monster Mike Welch Band, Mike released four acclaimed CDs of mostly original material (These Blues are Mine, Axe to Grind, Catch Me , Cryin' Hey and Adding Insight To Injury.
Mike started playing guitar at the age of eight, inspired by everything from the Beatles to Robert Johnson. He dedicated himself to the blues by the age of eleven, and quickly progressed from a regular at local blues jams to a respected member of Boston’s professional blues community. By the time he was fourteen, Mike had played with blues greats like Junior Wells, James Cotton, Hubert Sumlin, and Johnny Copeland, as well as stars like the Blues Brothers Band with Dan Aykroyd, who gave Mike his nickname, “Monster Mike.”