Al Hill at Gandy Dancer Courtyard Jazz Series at Gandy Dancer

Al Hill & the Love Butlers were a mainstay in the Detroit music scene for years until Al and wife Whit relocated to Nashville, TN.  To the delight of his local fans, he returns every summer to Michigan for a select few shows.  Hill is a soul singer, a blues piano master, and an outstanding guitarist. His music is rooted in the blues, but pulls freely from soul, country, and jazz.   The Detroit Free Press says,"What separates pianist-guitarist Hill from the pack of pretenders is that Hill's swampy, swarthy boogie isn't just reverent interpretation – between the tangy, unaffected vocals, thick horns and fatty bottom end, the stuff is thick enough to taste...

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Al Hill & the Love Butlers were a mainstay in the Detroit music scene for years until Al and wife Whit relocated to Nashville, TN.  To the delight of his local fans, he returns every summer to Michigan for a select few shows.  Hill is a soul singer, a blues piano master, and an outstanding guitarist. His music is rooted in the blues, but pulls freely from soul, country, and jazz.   The Detroit Free Press says,"What separates pianist-guitarist Hill from the pack of pretenders is that Hill's swampy, swarthy boogie isn't just reverent interpretation – between the tangy, unaffected vocals, thick horns and fatty bottom end, the stuff is thick enough to taste. ...An engaging mesh of Memphis, New Orleans and Midwest...one of the most sublime platters to emerge from these parts in recent memory."

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