Michael Dotson is an internationally known Chicago bluesman, guitarist, singer and song writer who has played with many of the best.  He spent six years as Magic Slim's guitar player and was part of the lineup that won the WC Handy award for best band in 2003.  He has also worked with, many more artists such as Aron Burton, George Baze, Liz Mandevile, Big Time Sarah, Little Mac Simmons, Jimmy Burns, Willie Kent, Big Jack Johnson, Billy Boy Arnold, Homesick James, and a host of others.  He has toured the world extensively playing clubs and festivals in Europe, South America, Japan, as well as the US, and has appeared on several commercial releases backing up Magic Slim, Aron Burton, Jimmy Burns, Liz Mandeville, Granae Louise, and Big Jack Johnson.

As a teenager he soaked in the still thriving Chicago blues scene of the seventies.  His initial interest in the blues was sparked by seeing Muddy Waters live at a political fund raiser.   Although his first instruments were clarinet and saxaphone he began to play the guitar at the age of thirteen and being big for his age was sneaking into blues clubs on a regular basis by the age of sixteeen.

He was profoundly influenced by the music he experienced first hand from the likes of Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Junior Wells, Lefty Dizz and many others.  He later went on to perform with many of his boyhood heroes.