Hat

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Anyone who has seen Hat Fitz perform at one of his many festival appearances across Australia know how the big man can stir up an audience. With his wild frantic interpretations of early delta blues classics and self penned songs in tandem with drumming side kick Itchy he has built a repretation as a hard edged raw blues man. On stage Itchy and Fitzy have an amazing telepathic communication that keeps the music tight while reaching seemingly out of control crescendos. Few performers world wide, have been able to match the wild man approach to the delicate art of finger picking perfected by Hat Fitz. The recent success of The White Stripes etc. has seen great interest in guitar drum duos but none are able to match the fire and finesse of Hat Fitz & Itchy. Nine consecutive appearances at The East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival are testimony to their popularity nationally Shaun Bindley "Blues with a Feeling" 4aaa98.9fm. {Hat Fitz} plays heavily amplified acoustic blues, much of it in the style of blues guitarist from the 20s and 30s. Sometimes in the delicate finger-picking manner of the blues folkies sometimes flat out almost frenzied with growling vocals and driving drums/washboard. If someone gave Charlie Patton an electrified beat up metal body guitar and a jar of slurps this is what it would sound like Hat Fitz is a true home-grown equivalent of someone like RL Burnside or T-Model Ford playing raw and deceptively simple unique music which actually requires exceptional skill.