ean Chambers clearly remembers the moment. He was 15 years old, riding shotgun in his buddy’s green Pinto — just two kids off on an adventure to explore the night. Then, his friend inserted a cassette into the car’s player. It was Jimi Hendrix. The song was “Red House,” one of the most electric blues songs that Hendrix ever recorded. And just like that, traveling down that road, the direction of Chambers’ life changed forever. “I had started taking guitar lessons earlier that my parents were paying for, but I hated the music they were making me learn,” he recalls. “So I started learning on my own, playing the songs I loved. But when ‘Red House’ came on, well, I had never heard anybody play guitar like that before. The hair on my arms stood up. I was like, what is that incredible sound? It was the first blues tune I’d ever heard and that day, I knew I wanted to play the blues.” And play the blues Sean Chambers has done, to the tune of seven albums (his newest released October 19), national and international tours, and the high praise of being called “one of the top 50 blues guitarists of the past 100 years” by Guitarist magazine. And yes, this extraordinary talent can be found in our own backyard, calling Fort Myers home since 2012. For the record, Guitarist magazine isn’t the only member of the media that have come to discover and sings the praises of Sean Chambers. He’s been acclaimed in USA Today , Guitar Player magazine, Vintage Guitar magazine andmore. His albums and songs have soared high on the Billboard charts, been nominated and named “Best Blues Album of the Year,” and played extensively on BB King’s “Bluesville” on Sirius XM radio. That’s a long journey from a green Pinto almost 35 years ago, and the road he traveled to his artistic success today was, yes, long and winding and occasionally bumpy. In fact, it wasn’t until Chambers was almost 30 years old before he recorded his first album.
"I learned about the real blues, life on the road and staying humble." — Sean Chambers
“I was really drawn to the Texas blues artists as I was growing as a guitarist,” he says. “Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons,
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