Browsing: Ori Naftaly

“It’s about someone who is on the road a lot leaving a family behind, and noticing things they left broken at home are fixed when they return.”

Stolen items include a 2013 Les Paul Gold Top, Naftaly’s infamous 2001 Fender Stratocaster covered with stickers, a 2014 Squier Telecaster Blonde and more.

“John Lee Hooker’s guitar sound is unmistakably his. No one else can play like that. It’s raw. It’s intense. It’s everything I want to hear in a blues record.”

Southern Avenue has been nominated in two categories: New Artist Debut Album and Sean Costello Rising Star Award.

The band takes its name from a Memphis street that runs from the eastern-most part of the city limits all the way to Soulsville, the original home of Stax Records.

“We’re fighting to bring the blues from Israel to the world,” says Ori Naftaly