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I have a rock'n'roll heart but a folk soul. --BG


When he's not raving about himself in the third person for artist bios, Blake Guthrie lives in Atlanta, GA and travels the region as a performing songwriter. He has been playing professionally since 1996. In that year he was invited by the 40 Watt club in Athens, GA to open for alt-rock legend Frank Black. It was an odd match, the solo/singer-songwriter singing his quirky songs in front of Black's wall of amps to an initially indifferent audience, but it worked. Guthrie won them over with his honest approach and rough-hewn style, like some weird mix of Jonathan Richman and Bruce Springsteen--and he's been doing it under-the-radar like that ever since.

In 1998 Guthrie won the Critics Choice award for Best Singer/Songwriter in Atlanta from Creative Loafing, the largest newsweekly in the Southeast. In 1999 he won the award again--a two-peat. Blake was then asked to write for the magazine and was thus disqualified from ever winning the award again. There would be no three-peat.

He also shared the stage with another up-and-comer in Atlanta, John Mayer. The two young songwriters worked the door together at Eddies Attic nightclub, where they staged the infamous all-male singer/songwriter night Willis Fair in response to the estrogen-fest Lillith Fair. Blake will gladly share the video of this event with you if you have a VHS player and buy him some beer. It's quite fun viewing.

Since those early days Blake Guthrie has fine tuned his craft, becoming a respected professional on the local scene and continuing to spread out regionally and nationally. For some reason people in Australia, Canada and Belgium keep downloading songs from his latest CD--Til I Reach The Light--which Guthrie finds odd because he's never been to these countries and doesn't know anyone there. Recently Guthrie was a Top 10 finalist in the nationwide Performing Songwriter contest at the Founder's Folk Festival in Salt Lake City, UT.

He is currently at work on a novel and a new CD..


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Blake Guthrie on Wikipedia

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Song Album Length Played Overall You Tags Single Request
Black Hole Songs About Chicks (Live) 4:33 8
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You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Live / Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Acoustic
True Companion Songs About Chicks (Live) 3:23 7
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Girl In Black Songs About Chicks (Live) 3:52 6
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  • Spotlighted: Thursday, June 16th 2005
  • Songs on WWR: 8
  • Total plays: 63
  • Total requests: 32
  • Total listens: 1649
  • CDBaby referrals: 0
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