{"id":51549,"date":"2017-02-15T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=51549"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T23:09:52","slug":"former-child-prodigy-travels-beyond-the-blues-in-third-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/former-child-prodigy-travels-beyond-the-blues-in-third-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Former child prodigy travels beyond the blues in third album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Green room chat: Quinn Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/204197302?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The teenage years tend to be a time of identity crisis. Whether striving to be a member of the crowd, or a separation of it, finding oneself is the root of the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s what makes Quinn Sullivan, 17 years old, so refreshing. He seems to have found it a long, long time ago &#8212; yet he\u2019s so, so young.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan mastered the guitar early in childhood. He started playing at the age of five and quickly started gaining national attention once he performed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ueEBDnFsxxg\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/a> at six-years-old. But it wasn\u2019t until a backstage encounter with the legend Buddy Guy that he found a not only a mentor, but a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the green room, ready to join his now 80-year-old mentor on stage at his own club, Buddy Guy\u2019s Legends in Chicago, Sullivan seems anxious, yet at ease.<\/p>\n<p>And now, at the age of 17, Sullivan is surprising us again with the recent release of his third studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnight-Highway-Quinn-Sullivan\/dp\/B01N8QIYU3\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1487087742&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=quinn+sullivan\" target=\"_blank\">Midnight Highway<\/a>. This time Sullivan delivers more than just the blues. In an deliberate effort to expand his sound, Sullivan dabbles and delivers pop, rock, and some americana &#8212; reshaping the musician we, and perhaps even he thought he was. <\/p>\n<p>Sullivan chatted in a question and answer interview to expand on these new directions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> You got a toy guitar at three. You were really playing by five. By six you\u2019re on \u201cEllen,\u201d and you\u2019re playing the blues at such a young age, how has your perspective or just definition of the blues evolved, now being 17?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> It\u2019s definitely changed. I think when I first started playing and getting into that kind of music, I thought of it a lot differently. I\u2019ve lived a lot since I was obviously seven or eight getting into that, so there\u2019s just been a lot more life experience and honestly I\u2019ve just learned so much more about playing live because I\u2019ve done a lot of shows now and played a lot and kind of lived that life a little bit you know growing up, so its helped me a lot. And obviously hanging out with Buddy Guy a lot and touring with him, and him showing me a lot of stuff really has helped me out too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> I guess the traditional question, that\u2019s probably so annoying that everyone always asks is \u2013 \u201cWhat does a young kid know about the blues?\u201d When you start thinking about Robert Johnson, you think about Muddy Waters, all these great guys, what was your answer for that all the time, or at least in your head?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Well, I mean, when I first got into that music, it was actually seeing Buddy on Eric Clapton\u2019s Crossroads Guitar Festival. I wasn\u2019t really hip to any of the other stuff, like before Buddy, like Muddy and Howlin\u2019 Wolf and the Chicago guys, and the Mississippi guys, Texas, all that stuff before Buddy, so it was really just watching Buddy for the first time, and that really is what kind of grabbed my attention, in that sort of way. And just seeing him, you know, he\u2019s such a character when he\u2019s onstage, in such a great positive way. The mannerisms that he has and the way he projects in the crowd, not even just his guitar playing, but just the way he carries himself on stage, to me, just stuck out. Like he was on stage with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Vaughn and Hubert Sumlin on the 2004 Crossroads Festival and I think they played \u201cSweet Home Chicago,\u201d and that was the first time I heard blues music. You know, like, when I grew up I was listening to the Beatles, I was listening to the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, so that was really what I grew up on. It wasn\u2019t really \u201cblues\u201d necessarily, but when I first saw Buddy for the first time, it really made me go, ok, this is cool too, let me check this stuff out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> So now at five, I mean it\u2019s so frustrating, my dad\u2019s been trying to play a chord for years, okay, he can barely do it, he\u2019s fifty-something, so you in a lot of interviews just said, \u201cI just know how to do it.\u201d Is it god given talent, how do you describe that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know, I mean, I guess it could be that. But you know, I never let anything get to my head. I mean, I started playing when I was three and by five I started taking lessons professionally, and learning songs and chords and different notes and stuff. I had a lot of great teachers along the way, I had two very important guys that taught me the basics and what I needed to know. And I think by listening to a lot of records over the years and kind of just absorbing as much as I can absorb, in different kinds of music, really kind of helped me you know play guitar and learn different things about the guitar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> So you can\u2019t explain why you were that good at that age?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know. I appreciate you saying that man. Because yeah, I don\u2019t know, it was just there, it was always there. Music was there man. It was like listening to the Beatles and the Grateful Dead with huge headphones on, on the stereo, my parents were just constantly playing it, and I don\u2019t know if it was because I wasn\u2019t into anything else growing up, I don\u2019t know what it was, because most kids you know they start playing football, baseball, I was playing music, that was my thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> How do people treat you in high school? Does every girl want to date you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> No, I have a girlfriend, but yeah it really hasn\u2019t been crazy like that. They obviously think what I do is really cool, but they think that me going on Ellen, is &#8212; makes me the most famous guy in the world versus me playing here with Buddy, you know, they think it\u2019s cool, but they don\u2019t understand it. You know, I feel like a lot of people and there\u2019s a great story, because I took my two friends one time to one of my shows, and they got to see, I was telling someone this the other day, and they\u2019ve never seen a show before, never seen a live show, and the first show was obviously me and Buddy. And they saw Buddy and they were like this is one of the greatest freakin\u2019 things I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. So if you don\u2019t get that growing up, and you don\u2019t get that exposure to that kind of music, you\u2019re not going to be into it. Most kids now, they listen to hip-hop and rap and I listen to that too, but I was lucky enough to have parents growing up that showed me blues and rock and that whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> So if you were like doing One Direction music, it would be, the intensity would be different?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Exactly, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> Do you feel that your fans are mostly out of your age range, out of your demographic?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Yeah. I think it\u2019s coming a little more now, I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of younger people at shows lately, it\u2019s primarily middle aged people &#8212; at the moment, but I hope with this new record coming out to introduce some new young people into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> Yeah, because I was listening to a lot of the new stuff, it seems like you\u2019re making a very John Mayer-y type of transition\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Yeah. Well, that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do.  Yeah, he\u2019s a huge inspiration of mine. I value that a lot and I take a lot from what he\u2019s done over the years. But yeah, so that\u2019s definitely an influence for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> And this third studio album, Midnight Highway, it\u2019s very cool, I guess this is the first album that really has a lot of different \u2013 it has some pop, some rock, some Americana like you were saying earlier. Do you really think that you\u2019re almost making a transition from a blues kind of genre and you\u2019re really becoming more of a wholesome type of musician?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Yeah. That\u2019s definitely what I\u2019m trying to do. I mean, blues will always be there and it will always be the base kind of what I do, the baseline of what I do. But, I think as an artist and as a musician, I feel like because I\u2019ve been influenced by so many different types of music I just think that, I don\u2019t know, I always found myself going like, asking myself like why stop there, you know, just keep going and doing whatever you think feels right you know, I feel like music is music and if it feels right and sounds right I think you\u2019re on a good track, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> Who else are you listening to, I know you said Bruno Mars, who\u2019s like your favorite rapper?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> J. Cole is one of my favorite rappers, yeah, he\u2019s pretty cool. As far as artists go and entertainers I love, I\u2019m really into Ed Sheeran, love his stuff. A lot of singer-songwriter people like, I like this band called Dawes that\u2019s really cool. Alabama Shakes, Tedeschi Trucks Band. I\u2019ve been getting into this kid lately, his name is Marcus King, he\u2019s got a band out now called Marcus King Band, he\u2019s on Warren Haynes label I think, so yeah that whole things really cool. And yeah, The Weeknd, Bruno, all those people and Alicia Keys. I mean it really goes on and on, that\u2019s what\u2019s so cool about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> Cool, last question. I know you wrote three or four songs with your producer on this next album, tell me, I know the guitar came so easy to you, songwriting is a tough thing, you know, I think I just read something \u2013 I love John Mayer&#8217;s\u2019 new four songs he put out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Oh, it\u2019s great right? It\u2019s awesome. Oh my god.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> Been listening to it on repeat all over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Oh yeah, \u201cLove on the Weekend,\u201d that\u2019s it man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVIS:<\/strong> But the thing is, [John Mayer is] really saying, when he leaves this earth, he wants to be known as a writer, so like just tell me about the songwriting process, and the steps you\u2019re taking to become a great songwriter\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>SULLIVAN:<\/strong> Well, the way I\u2019ve done it over the years, and I started this when I was like 11 or 12, and I\u2019ve been getting into it a lot more now, but its, sometimes it just starts with a simple for me, anyways, it starts with just clicking record on my phone and playing whatever I feel sounds cool at the moment that I\u2019m working on, whether it\u2019s a melody, or if I sing something into my phone, or if it\u2019s a lyric idea and then, I put it down unless it\u2019s really, really, unless you have something you really have to write down or record on the guitar, most of the time it\u2019s just I click record and then I put it away a little bit, then I go back to it and see if that still sounds good to me, to my ear, and then I go from there, you know. And the way you know, when you co-write with someone and I\u2019ve gotten the opportunity to co-write with Tom Hambridge, my producer of this record, and yeah, you know, it kind of works the same way. We talk a lot, I talk about what\u2019s going on in my life at the moment, and he talks about stuff and then you know I normally have a guitar idea and something like that, and then it goes from there. And then we just start writing and collaborating and he normally already has some ideas as well, that\u2019s the cool thing about working with people like Tom is, they always have something up their sleeves, you know they\u2019re always going, \u201cOh, let\u2019s try this, because I started writing this the other day,\u201d or I said I have this guitar part that would sound cool, so yeah that\u2019s how it\u2019s been working for me lately, but I hope that I\u2019ll get more into that as I get older, and you know life experiences has a lot to do with it, and just traveling the world I think has a lot to do with it too and I have so many ideas for the next album already.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Quinn Sullivan performing at Buddy Guy&#8217;s Legends on January 21. (Video still from video courtesy of Buddy Guy&#8217;s Legends)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Davis The teenage years tend to be a time of identity crisis. 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