History The Lewis Hamilton Band
Bio:
19 year old Lewis has released two albums to date, Gambling Machine and Empty Roads. Gambling Machine won this the 'Best Jazz/Blues Recording' category at this year's Scottish New Music Awards, while I Got To Know from the album won a preliminary nomination in the British Blues Awards song writing category. Candlelight & Sympathy from Empty Roads will feature on the soundtrack of a new feature film 'Scar Tissue', due for release towards the end of 2012.
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His name is spreading fast around the UK music scene with features in Blues Matters and other music magazines. The band have played in excess of 200 shows from Carlisle to Orkney and appeared at some of the UK's biggest blues festivals, including Hebden, Maryport and Shetland. Lewis has also appeared on stage with several top musicians including Henrik Freischlader and Alan Nimmo.
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Lewis has also released two compilation albums under his own label featuring the best of Scottish blues, entitled Jock's Juke Joint. The two volumes include contributions from Lewis himself, Alan Nimmo, Gerry Jablonski and Blues N Trouble amongst many others. Songs from both have been aired on over 50 radio shows, including Paul Jones' BBC Radio 2 show and received airplay overseas in countries such as the USA, Australia, France and the Netherlands. The reviews have been very positive Jock's Juke Joint
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