Big Daddy Wilson - Smiling All Day Long (2025) Hi-Res

Big Daddy Wilson, the well-respected North Carolina-born bluesman, who made his name on the European scene with acclaimed albums like Love Is The Key (2009) Thumb A Ride (2011), I'm Your Man (2013), Time (2015), Neck Bone Stew (2017), Deep in My Soul (2019) and most recently Hard Time Blues and Plan B has walked a winding road to finally come to record Smiling All Day Long

With the release of Deep In My Soul in 2019, Daddy Wilson felt his music and career had come full-circle in style. "I see it as a journey," he said of his incredible backstory. "It's the journey of a man who found himself deep in this beautiful music called the blues and finally, after 25 years, made it back home...

But the road did not end there, and Wilson's new album is taking things even a few steps further: Smiling All Day Long presents his producing- and songwriting talents in a more versatile set of songs than ever before. Wilso says about the road he traveled:

"Creating this album has been an incredible journey, and it simply wouldn't have been possible without the talent, passion, and spirit of the extraordinary musicians who joined me along the way.