Sean Chambers

Sean Chambers draws his foremost guitar inspiration from Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, stylistic echoes of whom surface throughout his studio recordings and concert appearances. Growing up along Florida’s Gulf coast, the young musician also absorbed the sounds of Johnny Winter, Freddie King, B.B. King, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and ZZ Top.

Fifteen years of club work and vocal-guitar development preceded the 1998 release of his debut album, Strong Temptation, issued on Vestige Records. After college, Chambers secured an opportunity in Memphis that year when he was invited to join former Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin onstage at a blues festival; he subsequently spent the next four years on the road with Sumlin, who had recovered from cancer to resume touring.

Chambers has shared bills and performed with an array of his blues and blues-rock heroes, among them Derek Trucks, Gregg Allman, Kim Simmons, Tab Benoit, Jeff Healey, Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Pat Travers, Kim Wilson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Walter Trout, Big Bill Morganfield, Koko Taylor, Ike Turner, and Robert Cray, plus dozens of others who regularly appear on the Tampa club circuit. His touring schedule remains centered in Florida, with occasional excursions northward, into the Midwest, or over to Great Britain. Only two albums stand in his discography to date, a third now in preparation: Strong Temptation and 2005’s Humble Spirits on Rockview Records. In 2001 Great Britain’s Guitarist magazine placed Chambers among the Fifty Greatest Guitarists of all time.