Guitarist Bill Magee and his band play the best of Southern blues, guaranteed to please.
Bill Magee Blues Band is a 2014 nominee for "Best Blues" by the San Diego Music Awards, and was recently voted "Best Blues Band in San Diego" by
both the San Diego Music Association and the Reader Magazine.
In 1963,
Jimi Hendrix was playing as Jimmy James when Bill ‘Willie’
Magee met, befriended and
eventually joined up with Hendrix to form the
band "Jimmy James and the Flames." In 1967, Hendrix went to England, and
Magee took his newly formed band, the "Kansas City Playboys" on a tour around Europe.
Magee was
born in Mississippi but nurtured his musical roots in
New York City 's Harlem. Bill Magee
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in the NYC music scene for almost three decades as leader of the Kansas
City Playboys. Magee has performed with every great blues player
imaginable, including multiple performances at the famed Apollo Theater.
Relocating to Southern California in the late eighties, Bill formed
his current band in San Diego in 1993. Willie is the real deal playing
NYC, Chicago style, and southern blues with an electrifying connection
to his audience.