Big Gilson & Blues Dynamite

There are lots of bands out there, in America and around the world, who play the blues. They play the blues but you can tell they don’t feel the blues. Big Gilson is most definitely not one of those bands. This boy may hail from Rio, but he plays like he was born and raised in South Oak Cliff, and there is no higher testament a native Texan and lifelong blues freak can give. - John Nova Lomax - Music Independent Magazine, Houston-Texas.

His slide playing is disturbingly virtuosic.

You can’t confine an artistic idiom, or creative spirit. Blues, the quintessential music form of the USA, reached across continents and seized Brazilian singer/guitarist Big Gilson. The music’s good and so is the message. This is cross-culturalism of an inspiring form. A workingman’s musical form from the USA found its way to South America where it was embraced by a dedicated, open-minded musician, who honed his skills in the face of naysayers, and presently enjoys respect from blues communities in two nations. In other words, barriers ceased to be, as art, artist, and folk met on an agreeable common ground. If we could accomplish such melding in other matters in this geopolitical era, we would be on far firmer ground as a species - Tim Schuler - Met Music, Texas

Big Gilson is an excellent guitarist as well as a splendid slide guitarist and a fine song writer in addition. He plays a scorching electric slide. Watch for great things to come in the future from this very fine artist. - Tom Branson (Bluesrockers - 2002)

The United States birthplace and home of the Blues has been invaded again by another bona fide "Blues Man" from a foreign shore: "Blues Man," not just a player of blues but a musician who demonstrates through his interpretation and musicianship that blues courses through his veins with every beat of his heart. - The Delta Snake, by Michael Roberts – 2002

Big Gilson & Blues Dynamite at his incendiary best, and this CD should cement their reputation as one of the best blues-rock outfits north or south of the equator. - Al Kirkcaldy Host/blue in the face/CFFF 92.7 FM Blues columnist/Peterborough Examiner - CANADA

This is a great showcase for the undeniable worldwide popularity that blues music enjoys.

The lead-off "whats wrong with that" has some fine slide-work from Big Gilson that is an excellent sample of Gilsons knowledge of the delta masters.

And the slow blues of "ramshackle town"...an incredible solo from Big Gilson was for us the highlight of the set.

- Don & Sheryl Crow - Nashville Music Society.

Big Gilson is the Brazilan blues pride - Bernardo Araújo, Jornal O GLOBO

It looks like UK blues fans are in for something special” - D.B. - Blues in Britain - 2008

He is a top-notch guitarist with some impressive licks” - Blues & Rytmn Magazine, UK - 2008

Excellent guitar solos full of feeling and powerful slide playing. He’s vibrato is super cool. - Guitar Player Magazine - Brazil