#MyMusicStory

Submitted by: Black Creek Reign (iTunes, Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)

The year is 2006, a terrible mustache, and teenage awkwardness had set in rapidly. I had already been playing the piano for several years, but I was noticing around my high school that the guitar players were the ones who were surrounded by women. Apparently, you can't lug a piano around to the campfire, so I was very left out of any opportunities to meet new people or make new friends, or even impress people when we had school excursions (most of which ended up around a campfire, with someone clumsily strummed Wonderwall). It was then and there I decided I wanted to play the guitar. 

At first, it really was just an attempt to be included, but when the guitar players around my school were buzzing about this John Mayer character, I wanted to take a listen myself. I was not disappointed. How John Mayer feels about Stevie Ray Vaughan is exactly the way I feel about him. Everything changed for me the minute I heard the introduction to "Waiting On The World To Change". I was absolutely floored that he could make a guitar sound like that, and fuse songs that were still catchy and singable, with lush guitar arrangements. That's when it stopped being about something as juvenile as attracting women, it became about the music, no more, no less. 

This album awakened me to the genuine love of nothing but the music, and the joy you can get from creating, and performing. And there's nothing more powerful than that as a musician.

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Black Creek Reign is a rock band that beckons back to the glory days of guitar-led bar room rock music. Creating original tracks and reinterpreting their idols for covers (Bill Withers, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer), this multi- instrumental trio crafts a sound that blends rock, blues, funk and reggae, for a unique sound that belongs in both 1965 and 2020.