Nikki Hill at Gator By The Bay 2024 San Diego

Nikki Hill is sweet seduction, sweeter threat, and smoldering energy. An original force in American music, she is tender and tough, flamboyant, witty and
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dangerous. Overlapping soulful, sensual and bold vocal tones with powerful chrome-plated riffs and swagger, her voice finds a home in it - a soul singing, bar rocking, roots revivalist, that writes with frank self-reflection at a dancing tempo.
Hailing from Durham, North Carolina, Nikki Hill sang gospel in the church choir from childhood through her early teenage years. Gradually, she developed her ears for garage rock, rock n’ roll, blues and roots, while also picking up influence from living along the legendary Mississippi River - in St. Louis, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, and currently Memphis, Tennessee. In Nikki’s mind, a fertile mix of all the different types of music she had heard arose, and gradually these merged into something quite special, as she found her own voice with her distinctive vocals and energetic stage performance. On her third self-produced and self-released album, Feline Roots, she lets her soul rip. Nikki and her band take a muscular groove - celebrating and wailing over love, transgressions, the hard times, and wild freedom - and inject it with timeless effect, giving Nikki a foundation on which to build. It’s her version of rock n’ roll that can only come from her stories. NikkiHillRocks.com

[@brianquinn6141]

I was lucky enough to be there ,the whole set outstanding Laura Chavez just so on it .

[@GareBScopi]

This is one dangerous outfit that continues to get better and better...

[@reverserespiration]

Tight, powerful, authoritive bass playing, thunderous, precise drumming, like Bonham on cocaine, magical guitar work by Hill & Chavez, possibly the best I've ever heard and reminiscent of Mick Taylor & Keith Richards but better than both, and that voice, holy shit. Etta James & Tina Turner with Jagger-like performances. Best Rock & Roll band since 1968 Stones. Do yourself a favor. Watch them perform a song called "STRUTTIN". It may very well be the finest piece of pure Rock & Roll ever recorded. Awesome, awesome band. I was at this show. They made everyone before and after them look like they were asleep. Old farts like me were leaping in the air. I swore I could hear their knee replacements rattling. Struttin'...? It was a religious experience.

[@jimmacd3rd]

Man, I missed a good act!