Southern blues supergroup plays the Palladium Friday

Three young blues masters come together Friday on the big stage (Hough Hall) at St. Pete’s Palladium Theater. Tampa’s Damon Fowler and Boca Raton’s J.P. Soars are guitarists of the first order, and they both have busy and successful careers as solo performers and recording artists.

Pianist Victor Wainwright spent many years in Memphis, but now calls Savannah home. He’s also on the road pretty much all the time.

Their band is called Southern Hospitality, and they’ve been playing together – when schedules permit – since 2011. The band’s 2013 Easy Livin’ album, on Blind Pig Records, was produced by Tab Benoit and won a Blues Blast Music Award.

Wainwright has been awarded the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year Award, from the Blues Music Awards, on three occasions.

In 2009, Soars won the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge and the Albert King award for Best Guitarist.

Fowler’s most recent album, Barnyard Smile, entered the Billboard Blues Album chart at No. 6. It was produced by George Harris in Largo. According to Roots Blues, Fowler is “a roots guitar guru.”

Together, they create blues-based Americana music, Southern soul with hints of gospel and rock ‘n’ roll.

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