Damon Fowler is a guitar slinger, blues belter and veteran road dog who, with his new album “Alafia Moon” can add great storyteller to that list. Fowler is from Florida and celebrates that state’s reputation for nut cases and oddballs with songs that simply reek of the swampy air.

This is Fowler’s eight album and after years of collaborating with the likes of Tab Benoit, Dickey Betts and Victor Wainwright, he’s discovered his own unique style of playing the blues. His guitar playing perfectly complements his laid back vocals whether he’s playing blues, R&B, country, rockabilly, Americana or swing.

His storytelling has long been a part of his stage act and on “Alafia Moon” he takes that talent to a new level with songs about his hometown on the Alafia river, how he has coped during the pandemic, how he deals with drunk hecklers and on a cover of a Guy Clark song, the magic of an old guitar.

Rising from the steamy murkiness of the Florida west coast, Damon Fowler has long been flying under the radar but “Alafia Moon” is an album that puts him right up there with the blues greats of today and may just put his state back on the map of influential musical hotbeds, nutcases and oddballs notwithstanding.