Award winning performing songwriter, Nathan Bell, the subject of a 2020 Documentary short film “I Don’t Do This For Love (American Songwriter Nathan Bell on tour in Scotland, Wales and England)” was a best-of selection for Americana UK in 2016, 2017, and 2018 including Best Male Artist of 2017.
He is a mesmerizing live performer who borrows from traditional musical forms and the literary traditions of writers like Jack London, John Berryman, and Studs Terkel to produce moving pictures of the American experience.
“It’s all powerful stuff and Bell is spellbinding on stage, a true sage for these troubled times.”
Paul Kerr- Americana UK/Blabber n’ Smoke
“This is the kind of artist that Nathan Bell is: The year Donald Trump was impeached as president of the United States, Nathan was writing songs that would make up Red, White and American Blues (it couldn’t happen here), the subtitle a direct reference to Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel imagining the possibility that the people of the United States of America could be mindlessly led to fascism. [2] Like Lewis’s novel, this album could be the most important piece of literature of our particular moment in time. You may call that last sentence hyperbole, but I just call it honest. Red, White and American Blues is not a protest album, although it has protest songs. It’s not a Black Lives Matter album, but in these songs, Black lives matter. It’s an American album. It’s a set of songs about a broken country and its broken people.”
Mark Kemp- Author of “Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South”
Bell's latest Project is the anti-fascist blues soul and more band, The Right Reverend Crow.
Songstorian Bell is joined by world class musicians, Frank Swart and Alvino Bennett along with special guest young gun blues guitarist Sean “Mack” McDonald.
Starting with the dead thumb blues of the scathing “You Say Nothing” and ending with the crushing spoken word assault of “A Woman,” the long overdue answer song to Free’s “Alright Now,” the trio created a muscular soul/blues mix that proved the perfect vehicle for Bell’s anti-fascist, pro-justice songs.
Thus, was born the album “Demokracy Blues” and the trio took on Bell’s alias: The Right Reverend Crow.
If you’re tired of watching people, corporations, and artists bend the knee to this corrupt and cruel regime, The Right Reverend Crow might be just what you need.