Some exciting news to report for our favourite soul digger Geoff Achison - Atlanta’s favourite adopted funky/blues/groove guitar-playing musician hailing from Frankston, Australia.

We learned this week from his management that the fine folks at Guitar Player Magazine, who know a thing or two about this sort of stuff, have conducted a readers’ poll that placed Geoff Achison amongst the “Top Ten Hottest New Guitarists!” It’s in the June ‘08 issue (p.64) in case you’d like to pick one up, or check up on this. A wonderful honour indeed.

The big news for Geoff’s Australian audience is that he and his family will be returning home to Melbourne by the beginning of November in time for the Wangaratta Jazz Festival where he will appear with his highly regarded Aussie Souldiggers featured on his latest ‘Live’ album Souldiggin’ CD.

More great news: Besides getting to meet the legendary Les Paul in New York back in February, Geoff also got to meet and jam with the great R&B vocalist Delbert McClinton in Nashville recently.

The upshot of this meeting has been that Geoff Achison and The Souldiggers have been invited to play on the 15th Annual Delbert McClinton Sandy Beaches Cruise January 17 - 24! It leaves out of San Diego, and features incredible musicians like Tab Benoit, Marcia Ball, Cyril Neville, Al Anderson (from NRBQ), Jimmy Hall, Fred Eaglesmith and so many more. Music, warmth, concerts, jams, beaches - just what we need in January. There are still cabins available, but they do expect to sell out.

The road does go on forever, it seems. (and that’s a good thing!) Geoff has lots of US dates coming up, some cool festivals, theatres, city series and clubs.

All details can be found at www.geoffachison.com

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