Headhunters Blues Band, Michael Woods

Formed in late 2015, The Head Hunters Blues Band have quickly become a hugely respected blues band on the Liverpool club scene with a no compromise attitude of playing “nothin’ but killer blues”. The immensely talented band have gained high praise from former Beatle, Pete Best, who said the band took him back to his youth. Recently the band were joined onstage by Albie Donnely of Supercharge and Ian McNabb of Icicle Works fame. David Fishel, Jazz MC and Mersey Radio presenter said “The Head Hunters are not only the best blues band in Liverpool, they’re the best in the country — it won’t take too long for the rest of the country to figure that out”.

A comprehensive tour of the UK in February saw the band play to a standing room only audience at Blues Bar Tring, joined onstage by keys player G Lewis of Paul Rodgers band, Free and Bad Company, and by guitar player Aaron Keylock. In June the band embarked on another tour of the UK, the “Back From The Delta Tour”. This run saw The Head Hunters Blues Band rework songs from the delta, artists such as Tampa Red, Little Hat Jones, Blind Willie Johnson, Tommy Mcclennan and more, reworked to an electric sound, sticking to the bands Chicago roots with plans to record in the autumn of 2018 and tour early 2019.

Michael Woods is a Fingerpicking, Ragtime, Bottleneck & Blues guitarist who has been performing for about 33 years, inspired by the great country blues guitarists like Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller & Rev. Gary Davis.

His first floor spot was at the Big Jug folk club in Durham, England. He has guested in clubs across the UK, from Cardiff, Ashington, Gainford, Consett and Cramlington to more high profile appearances, sharing the stage with Dave Peabody & Brendan Power at the Blue Front Blues Room in the Forest of Dean, and with Jacques Stotzem at Cambridge Folk Club finishing the night at both the first Durham Blues Festival and the Cleethorpes Blues Festival in 2011. and performing at the Durham & Cleethorpes blues festivals for the second time in 2016.