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Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition

Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition

  The late Memphis producer Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus “the singing voice of Huck Finn.” Outside the South, Mathus is likely known as the ringleader of the hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers. In his native Mississippi...
Sam Mosely & The Mosely and Johnson Band

Sam Mosely & The Mosely and Johnson Band

New Albany-based blues musician Sam Mosley has logged over 40 years of performing throughout the world, mostly with fellow blues great Bob Johnson until Johnson’s death in 1998. The pair recorded three albums for Malaco Records including 1972′s Mississippi...
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....
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...
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