Jeff Dale

Jeff Dale is an award winning songwriter and performer, born and raised on the south side of Chicago
Having played all over the United States, he now reaches international audiences with shows from Belgium to Barcelona and Berlin to Croatia. With over 40 years of performing and writing original roots music, "Jeff Dale has the kind of raw edge I like to hear in my blues. Jeff Dale is, without question, the real deal." -Bill Wilson-Reflections in Blue

But let’s back it up. Before he could shave, Jeff was exposed to the music and live performances of Hound Dog Taylor, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor and many more practitioners of Chicago blues. “In the neighborhood where I grew up,” says Dale, “if you had your antennas up, you could feel the blues right there.”

Jeff’s blues lineage includes accompanying legendary performers such as Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton and Etta James among others. He has collected tales and advice in his travels through the world of the blues, being in the company of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Albert King and Clifton Chenier and more. Jeff also befriended the late David “Honeyboy” Edwards, the last of the original Delta bluesmen, and had the great fortune to accompany him at many venues including the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.