Jazz-infused psychedelic southern rock | The Marcus King Band | TEDxGreenville

Hang on tight so you won't get blown out of your seat! The Marcus King Band knocks out a soulful blend of funk, blues, rock and jazz.

Call him the next Duane Allman or Jimi Hendrix — but whatever you do, don’t call Marcus King a child prodigy. Sure, the 18-year-old guitar shredder’s talent shimmers with the same resonance as his heroes, but he’s been wielding that axe since he learned to talk – he started playing when he was two.

Marcus was born into music, gifted with steel-string DNA and two generations of men before him who nurtured the boy’s musical nature. Marcus’s dad, the slyly talented Marvin King, has been a force in Upstate South Carolina’s music heritage for as long as anyone can remember. Marvin’s father and Marcus’s granddad, Bill, played a big part, too. It was only natural, then, that the boy who got his first guitar (a Squier Strat) at age 7 would land his first paying gig a year later.
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