Mike Farris

Using a gospel-fueled voice that appears like a cross between your hard rock stream of Bon Scott as well as the joyful sweetness of Al Green, Mike Farris has taken quite a while to balance his life and considerable talent. Devastated when his parents divorced when he was 11 years of age, Farris tumbled early in to the globe of alcohol and drugs, a life style that arrived him in reform college. Almost dying from an unintentional overdose, he relocated in along with his dad and started playing acoustic guitar and writing tunes, gradually tugging himself from the depths of his addictions. After developing the seminal 1990s blues jam music group the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies, nevertheless, the limitless touring and pubs sent him back to his older bad habits, even though he released good music with SCW, with Relaxing Knievel, and during his stint as the vocalist for Double Problems, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s older tempo section, Farris is at deep emotional problems. Finally, in 2004, while going to the funeral of a pal, he decided he previously plenty of, and embraced both God and sobriety. His two single albums since, 2002’s Goodnight Sunlight and the next Salvation in Lamps, stated in Nashville by Matt Martone and offering Johnny Cash’s longtime bassist Dave Roe, are impressive musical and religious testaments to Farris’ dedication to personal redemption.