Michael Burks was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, "Everybody's Got Their Hand Out", "I Smell Smoke" and "Hard Come, Easy Go", and variously worked with Johnnie Taylor, O. V. Wright, and Marquise Knox. He was the son of the bassist, Frederick Burks. The Allmusic journalist, Tim Sheridan once noted "… while his vocals are not stellar, he has a rich, gritty quality to his singing that is nicely matched to his guitar playing." Burks was known as 'Iron Man' for his energetic and passion filled performances on stage. He was nominated five times for a Blues Music Award and, in 2004, Living Blues presented him with the Critics' Award for Best Guitarist. In 2013, Burks took the Blues Music Award "Contemporary Blues Album of the Year" and "Album of the Year" categories with his posthumous release, Show Of Strength. Another posthumous CD was released in 2016, I'm A Bluesman.
Fishbach is an independent artist from the unprecedent and rich young french-singing scene ( she's 25 yo). Her inspirations come from 80s scene melodies and make you think about french artists like Catherine Ringer or Desireless. Her main instruments are her Telecaster, enhanced with a lot of synth and reverbs, and her voice. She can sing with a voice as low, strong and vibrant on some songs as high, light and delicates on others. Her lyrics address themes such as love and death, joy and pain, or loneliness in a very french romantic way. After a debut EP released on french label Les disques Entreprise in 2015, her upcoming album is due to come on January 27 of 2017 on the same label. If you like french artists such as Grand Blanc, La Femme, Flavien Berger and Buvette, you should have an instant crush with Fishbach.