The 18-year-old might be the greatest thing to come out of Nashville since Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint but she's keeping her feet on the ground, hands on her SG, as everyone else stands in awe of her prodigious talent.
When she was nine years old, Grace Bowers had dreams of hair metal glory. “I was totally into Winger, Ratt, Warrant, Poison – just the cheesiest bands imaginable,” she says. “I persuaded my mom to buy me a guitar, only she got me an acoustic. She didn’t think I’d stick with it, so she went for the cheapest thing the store had.”
The pre-teen shred wannabe tried in vain to master lightning-fast licks, but her musical ambitions changed one day while she and her mother were in the car running errands.
Bowers flipped through radio stations and landed on a blues channel, and that’s when she first heard B.B. King playing Sweet Little Angel. “I thought, ‘He says more in five notes than the metal guys can with a million notes,” she says. “All at once I said, ‘That’s what I want to do.’”
As an up-and-comer in Nashville, Dolly Parton recruited her for a network television special and Tyler Childers requested that she join him on stage. She’s played with a who’s-who of three-chord storytellers and guitar-pickin’ torchbearers – Lainey Wilson, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Susan Tedeschi, to name a few.
And she’s not yet old enough to graduate high school. Phenom? Wunderkind? … Prodigy? No matter what label may be pinned to Bowers, she’s just a teenager who’s putting her faith in rock ‘n’ roll – one song at a time.
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Cancun, Mexico
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West Hollywood, CA, United States
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Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge @ 8:00pm
Rocky Mount, VA, United States
