Tinsley Ellis comes back to town for a show at Jim Porter's on September 5, promoting a brand new record, Midnight Blue, as well as 2013's Get It!, which had not been released as of his last show in the area in 2011. His inspiration to become a blues musician came from seeing a live show by B. B. King. He kicked around the Atlanta area while in college, forming The Alley Cats in 1979. The band broke up in 1988 after releasing three albums on a small label. He then signed with Alligator Records and began his string of releases, now totaling fourteen studio albums.
Billboard had this to say about Ellis: “nobody has released more consistently excellent blues albums than Atlanta’s Tinsley Ellis. He sings like a man possessed and wields a mean lead guitar." There you are. Tickets are $15 and it's a 7 p.m. show.

--Paul Moffett