Bio Nederlands

Born and raised in the Netherlands (Nov 1, 1959), Willem Dyck began playing guitar as a teenager, inspired by a friend who gives him an album of Elmore James. Later he gets his hands on a tape with the music of Freddy King (album: Texas cannonball) and around the same time he bought himself a record of Buddy Guy (DJ play my blues).

This all was the start of buying every blues record Willem could find and effort. Though blues records where hard to find in the mid and late seventies, Willem found a post order store in Amsterdam that had all the blues records he was looking for.

Now he could listening to all the great blues artist (and play along with the records) who inspired him to play blues guitar till this day; Lightnin’ Hopkins, Albert King, Freddy King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, T- bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc etc.

By the time he was 19, he had dropped out of school to concentrate on playing guitar. He began playing in a number of bands, most times as a leader and always playing the blues. And then there was the blues revival of the 80’ ignited by Stevie Ray Vaughan.The approach of mixing all the classic blues in a postmodern blues style, such as artist like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter did before, was/is an approach that Willem not only loved but;" for me it’s a natural thing". (See interview page).

Willem started playing professional in the mid 80’ and developing a uniquely electric fiery style of playing with a lot of passion and love for the blues. Both his "normal" guitar playing as his slide playing bridge the gap between blues and rock on his own unique way. (On the music page you can hear Willem play slide).

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