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Aaron Moore

Aaron Moore

Aaron Moore is one of the survivors of the classic boogie-woogie piano style that permeated the 1950s Chicago blues scene. At age 93, he is just beginning to gain the notoriety that eluded him throughout most of his career. Known primarily as a backing...
Jacqueline Nassar

Jacqueline Nassar

Jacqueline Nassar is a 18 year old singer, songwriter, and artist from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Her music career began at the age of seven, when she learned to play the drums. By eight years old, she picked up the guitar and it is now her main instrument....
Eddie Cusic

Eddie Cusic

One of the last living true country blues artists, Eddie Cusic was born on January 4, 1926 just south of Leland, and grew up helping his family tend the fields. He got his first taste of guitar, like many before him, by playing the one-stringed diddly-bow...
Blind Mississippi Morris

Blind Mississippi Morris

The hot, dusty Mississippi Delta and Memphis, TN, known alternatively as “the Eden of the Blues” and “the Home of the Blues”, are prolific and legendary producers of unique and diverse Blues’ greats like Robert Johnson, Elmore...
Jody Williams

Jody Williams

“The first great stringbender on the Chicago blues scene, Williams provided the stylistic bridge between B.B. King and T-Bone Walker and young firebrands Otis Rush and Buddy Guy, both of whom wholeheartedly absorbed his innovations” - Bill...
The Hancock Company

The Hancock Company

As for what we “do”…. Collectively, we feel obliged to do our part, at least what we can, to recreate and advocate Mississippi’s music… Linking the heart of the hills to the sultry soul of the delta, The Hancock Co. fuses the sounds of...
Cadillac Funk

Cadillac Funk

“Cadillac Johnson” grew up in Indianola and Cleveland, Mississippi, and then attended Delta State University. He’s not allowed to call his band “Cadillac Johnson” anymore, and his given name is Andrew Yurkow, anyway. He’s a hardworking, songwriting,...
Effie Burt Quartet

Effie Burt Quartet

A lifelong vocalist, Effie Burt was born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi as one of twelve musically gifted siblings. Effie has been performing since the age of 13 with her family at churches and local musical events in Mississippi and Tennessee. An...
Mark “Muleman” Massey

Mark “Muleman” Massey

Mark “Muleman” Massey sings about what he knows. His song “Seventeen Long Years” refers to his sentence at Parchman. Thanks to his time with the Parchman Band, he was released early. He now owns his own business, raises his...
DuWayne Burnside

DuWayne Burnside

Duwayne Burnside plays as intensely as he talks. But, to the average person, his playing is a bit easier to understand than his Mississippi speech–or maybe not. His latest, Under Pressure,sure sounds like a Hendrix tribute. But Burnside says it isn’t....
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