Eugene Hideaway Bridges says he got his guitar skills from the Bridges side and his voice from the Bullocks. Why might that be important? His father was “Hideaway Slim” Bridges and his mother was a Bullock—the same Bullocks family as in Anna Mae Bullock who is better known as Tina Turner.

In the blues scene worldwide and confirmed by numerous blues reviews online, Eugene is quickly becoming a blues legend in his own right. Blue Armadillo website has these quotes about him:

If there’s anyone who’s ever a sure thing for blues stardom it has to be Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges, who at 40 (young in the blues world), is already one of the blues elite. The UK based Armadillo has done a classy job with this release but it’s still ironic that a bluesman of his stature has to leave his own country to make a living.
- Jeff Harris Bad Dog Blues NY 2003

His voice is his secret weapon: constricted with emotion on the upper registers, clear-timbered and sure through the middle range, it carries strong echoes of the church even as he oils it with bluesy sensuality (as well as an appropriately Texan tinge of hard-country balladry).
- David Whiteis Living Blues # 169 2003

Eugene Hideaway Bridges is performing at Tokyo Joe’s, Sukhumvit Soi 24, for one night only on Wednesday June 15. The music is to begin at 8:30 pm.

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