Michigan native Laith Al-Saadi, long considered a brilliant blues guitarist and singer, gathered a band of legends for his latest effort, Real. - recorded at the historic Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, California. Produced by Jeffrey Weber, the project was recorded live to two tracks, with no mixing, editing, overdubbing, auto-tuning, limiting and compression. Laith is the real deal," explained Weber. "He has jaw dropping technique and an evocative vocal character that captures the unbridled passion of his lyrics. He made a believer out of every one of us."The unforgiving nature of two-track recording is a challenge for most artists, but not for Al-Saadi. " This project is meant to celebrate the feel, joy and spontaneity of music in the moment and of the moment - which is so often lost in the sea of overproduced, auto-tuned, pieced together tracks. The new album features all original material written by Al-Saadi except for one track - 'Ophelia', which was recorded as a tribute to one of Al-Saadi's musical heroes who passed away in 2012... Levon Helm. By the time he was 18 years old Laith had opened for Blues greats like Buddy Guy, Luther Allison, Son Seals, and Taj Mahal - and more recently opened for the likes of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Leon Russell, Johnny Winter, Hubert Sumlin, Olu Dara, Gregg Allman and BB King to name a few. He also performed on a duet with Joe Walsh on the Celebrity Duet on the Voice finale. Laith spent two decades of playing nearly 300 shows a year honing his craft prior to being exposed to millions of people nationwide when he was a finalist on NBC's widely popular show, The Voice..

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