ABOUT

BENJAMIN LUKE (B.L.) REED

Benjamin Luke (B.L.) Reed came from the salt of Choctaw County, Mississippi. Holidays were filled with picking parties and country cooking among his cross-generational musical family. Moving to Birmingham, AL for his formative years, B.L. spent days in the high school jazz band, and moonlighted as the teen-rock guitar hero of The Magic City. After winning the All State Jazz competition at age seventeen, his career seemed predestined.

B.L. moved to Nashville in 2011 and got straight to work. A decade later, he’s that guy who plays in everyone’s band: accompanying artists across a multitude of genres while composing, producing, writing and arranging for records, film, theater and audiovisual projects. His debut record, Easy Streets, is a romantic critique of Southern culture; a fast-paced, groovy-fried recipe cooked by ear, rich as his cornbread and best washed down with a cold one. Expect equal parts Southern charm, religious guilt and unapologetically loud guitar solos ’til the cows come home.