Simon Kinny-Lewis

The Simon Kinny-Lewis Band take the audience on a seismic journey of compelling, blues guitar. Their world-class musicianship, soulful vocals, impressive songwriting, and high energy performance is front and centre at any of their live shows, or in the studio.

Simon’s own original brand of contemporary blues and rock has created a loyal fan-base of guitar enthusiasts around the globe. He has performed and recorded with highly regarded musicians such as Chris Cain, Anton Davidyants, Nate Ginsberg (Herbie Hancock’s Monster Band), Christian Howes, Simeon Cain (Henry Rollins Band) and many more.

He has produced 6 albums to date with his previous solo album “Catfish” and band album “Bad Whiskey” reached number 1 and 2 respectively on The Australian Blues and Roots Charts. The brand new CD “A Day in San Jose” will no doubt follow that trend.

Simon is not the only focus in this band. Tony Boyd and Rob Ewan (drums and bass) are a sought after rhythm section and over the past several months have toured with US guitar greats Josh Smith and Eric Stekel.

Just recently Simon has been recognised at the Australian Blues Music “Chain’ Awards 2019 as “Best New Talent” and was also a finalist in the categories of “Album of The Year” and “Duo or Group of The Year” alongside artists such as Lloyd Spiegel, Fiona Boyes, Cyril B Bunter and 8 Ball Aitken.

Endorsements:

Steve Lukather (guitarist for Toto) comments on Simon Kinny-Lewis’s brand new album "Street Blues"
"Great man. Your voice has a little Bonnamassa in it…which is cool. Love the tune too. Killer solo!"

T.J. Helmerich - Producer/engineer for artists Steve Vai, Victor Wooten, and Tribal Tech says this about Simon’s 2015 release "Strat Attack".

"Simon’s releases never cease to amaze me! This one is my favourite I think... love the writing, and the players. Simon’s guitar talents truly shine on this, as he effortlessly navigates through tricky progressions with fire, grace and taste!"

Christian Howes - Leading jazz violinist and professor at the Berklee College of Music. His artistic collaborators have included Les Paul, Greg Osby, Robben Ford, to name a few writes, "one of the most soulful guitar players on the planet!"

"What I look for is timing and performance..and Simon is top on both of those." - Simon Cotsworth - Producer/engineer (Seal, Santana, Benson, Ritenour and Simon Kinny-Lewis)

"Simon appears as a good poet and storyteller, but also as an excellent composer, an impressive singer and a first class guitar player!" - Vicente Zúmel, La Hora del Blues (Barcelona)