Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne
is a slide guitarist, singer, and songwriter born in Shreveport, Louisiana and based in Austin, Texas.
His debut recording Thunder Chicken
, produced by Dan Prothero, has been referred to as "one of the few truly wild and unruly records to come from the rock & roll tradition in the 21st century" by .
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Biography
While still in grade school, he was conning his cousin to take him into the
French Quarter so he could buy every element of
Brian Jones' outfit from the front cover of
High Tides & Green Grass
... all part of his childhood wish to be "a real
San Francisco hippie".
He had taken up the guitar at age four, and was playing blues by the time he was eight. The great blues guitarist
John Campbell took him under his wing when Malcolm was 14, and around that time he started taking the Blues seriously as an instrumentalist. He teamed up with Michael Johnson and forming
The Killer Bees in 1980. Upon the release of his debut album
Thunder Chicken
he remarked that for the first time in his adult life, he was finally able to reflect warmly on the years growing up in
Shreveport.
Discography
- Thunder Chicken
- Fog City Records
- Do Your Thing
- Fog City Records