Wink Keziah & Delux Motel

Overview

Wink Keziah is a true son of the South, an urban hillbilly by birth, and a musical outlaw by his very nature. Yet at the same time he's a man of many other worlds, too. All that and more can be heard on Cowbilly, his latest album on his own label, Great South Records.  Hailed as "a master of many styles that all speak to blue collar America” by Vintage Guitar magazine, Keziah knows of what he writes and sings about in his supercharged real-life country songs. He grew up dirt poor in Charlotte, NC's hardscrabble redneck ghetto, first met his father through the chain-link fence of a prison yard, and later watched his mother shoot his dad twice as he was getting ready for school. "My life reads like a cheap C movie script," Keziah says with a chuckle. But it’s one with a happy ending where the hero triumphs.  The man also knows his music and all about playing it live for people from many walks of life. He started in his first band at nine years old, began writing songs by the age of 12, and at 14 had a regular gig with a group in a strip joint. He went on to blaze a trail throughout the South with bands like The Rollin’ Tumbleweeds, Adam’s House Cat and The Houdauls before stepping out under his own name to make three critically-acclaimed albums of hardcore rocking country.