Garret T. Willie

Garret T. Willie is a 25-year-old blues and rock musician who splits his time growing up between Kingcome Inlet on the central coast of British Columbia, Alert Bay on Cormorant Island, and Campbell River, where he was born. He is the grandson of the late Bill Cranmer, hereditary chief of the 'Namgis First Nation. Willie first picked up a guitar 18 years ago at the age of seven with an old acoustic laying around the house, and was given a black Fender Stratocaster of his own the following year. He's been studying every inch of blues and rock history and that lineage ever since he started teaching himself Angus Young solos as a 7-year-old from the sticks. Garret T. Willie offers the world a contemporary take on hardscrabble blues and the purest and rawest rock 'n' roll. He's studiously schooled in all the right source material, from Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Muddy Waters to Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to The Rolling Stones, Ten Years After, AC/DC, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and George Thorogood. Willie recently took his guitar to Nashville for the recording of his forthcoming album with Grammy Award-winning producer Tom Hambridge. His debut album 'Same Pain' was released featuring producer/co-writer Parker Bossley. With his powerful guitar work and gritty vocals, Garret T. Willie is carrying the torch of blues and rock traditions while bringing his own Indigenous Canadian perspective to the genre.

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