Credit: Photo via Damon Fowler / Facebook

In the world of Tampa Bay bluesman, Damon Fowler is one of the GOATs. His style of masterful guitar work is reminiscent of Jeff Beck’s and has become a hallmark of the Gulf coast blues sound, and he’s been in the lineup for bands led by the likes of Butch Trucks, Dickey Betts and others.

Expect a chorus of friends to sing “happy birthday” to the Bradenton boy to commemorate his 45th trip around the sun.

Tickets to Damon Fowler’s Birthday Bash at Skipper’s Smokehouse in Tampa on Saturday, March 9 are still available for $15.

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This article appears in Feb 29 – Mar 6, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...