70 Year Old Still Rocks !

Beverly “Guitar” Watkins the musician and recording artist born in Atlanta, Georgia (around 1940) is a rarity being a 70 year old black female blues guitarist. Sandra Pointer-Jones wrote, "Beverly Watkins is a pyrotechnic guitar maven whose searing, ballistic attacks on the guitar have become allegorical tales within the blues community." George Varga in a review of her debut CD, observed that Watkins “sings and plays with enough poise and verve to make musicians half her age or younger consider alternative means of employment." At her first public performance she played Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" at a school talent show. Her professional career began while she was still a teenager, completing her schoolwork by correspondence as her band Piano Red and the Meter-tones began touring and grew into a national act. Her band has seen many incarnations which include: Piano Red & the Interns, Dr. Feelgood & the Interns, Dr. Feelgood and the Interns & the Nurse. Miss Watkins, who celebrated her 70th birthday this past April, hasn't stopped rockin' and can be found playing in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.