Marcus King is a blues rock and Southern rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Greenville, South Carolina, born in 1996 into a family of players. El Dorado (2020), produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, launched his solo run; Carolina Confessions (2018) captures The Marcus King Band at full boil. Find Marcus King vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Marcus King was born in Greenville, South Carolina on March 11, 1996 to a musical family - his father Marvin King is a guitarist and his grandfather Bill King was a country musician. He launched his recording career in his teens with The Marcus King Band (the band he formed and led). His solo catalog launched in earnest with El Dorado (2020), produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. He has continued releasing material across multiple decades, with progressively expanded production approaches across his albums.
Marcus King's sound combines blues rock, Southern rock, soul, R&B, rock, country soul, and Americana with his distinctive vocal delivery, virtuosic guitar work (drawing on Duane Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and broader Southern rock guitar traditions), and arrangements drawing on classic Southern rock and contemporary blues rock approaches.
Fantasy, Snakefarm, and American Recordings pressings of the Marcus King catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Marcus King typically start with El Dorado (2020) or Carolina Confessions (2018).
