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Dave Sherman

Dave Sherman

Dave’s songs include hard-driving blues tunes such as the Duct Tape Blues and soulful tunes about real life. His songs are wrapped around a deep voice that is as much a part of the Mississippi Delta as cotton fields and paddle wheels. He has shared the stage with such acts as with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Hues Corporation…

Johnny Dowd

Johnny Dowd

Johnny Dowd is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental, noisy breaks in his songs and strong gothic elements in the lyrics as well as in the music. There is also a strong undercurrent of black humor and the absurd in his work Mike Edmondson has been Johnny Dowd‘s dedicated sideman since the…

Zechariah Lloyd

Zechariah Lloyd

Born to a drummer and pianist in Vicksburg, MS, he woke up every morning to his mother playing on her baby grand. He began playing drums at age 11 on his father’s drumset – cutting his teeth on Zeppelin & Skynyrd records he borrowed from his uncle and playing with the church band. After high school he ended up in…

Patrick Sweany

Patrick Sweany

Patrick Sweany lives for the Grooves. Whether it’s the ones he records on his albums, the ones he lays down with his band on the stage, or the ones that define his days writing songs and living life in his E. Nashville neighborhood, the Grooves are what have propelled Sweany through 20+ years of performing and recording across 8 studio albums…

Jamie Todd byGod

Jamie Todd byGod

Jamie Todd and his band, ByGod (Lead Guitar, Vocals) Rich Reitz (Bass Guitar) Lee Ingram (Drums)   Each of us have our walks in life to forge, and totes to carry; we just so happened to be here now.   Jamie Todd has called Lafayette County home for years, and has engulfed bloating amounts of time and energy in honing…

Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush… GRAMMY winning blues legend, Blues Hall of Famer, 12x Blues Music Award winner, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, and makes a cameo in the Netflix Original ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Starring Eddie Murphy. After decades of tearing up the chitlin’ circuit on a nightly basis with his sweaty, no-holds-barred funkfests, Bobby has thoroughly broken through to the…

Ken “Pickle” Byest

Ken “Pickle” Byest

Pickle Byest started playing drums at the age of 13 years old.  He has performed with grammy award winners B.B. King and  Bobby Rush.  He also performed for 15 years and traveled around the world with blues singer Paul Wine Jones.  In addition to his love for the blues.  Pickle has performed for over 20 years with the gospel group,…

Matt Gaylord and the D13

Matt Gaylord and the D13

Like the namesake D13 engine, Matt Gaylord and the D13 are a musical powerhouse churning out plenty of thick Hill Country style grooves as well as re-vamped, riff-driven retro rock and soul. The trio consists of Cam Kimbrough (grandson of the late Junior Kimbrough) on drums, Trenton Ayers (Cedric Burnside Project, WolfEagle) on guitar, and Matt Gaylord (student of local…

Australia Jones Honeybee Neal

Australia Jones Honeybee Neal

Australia was born in Flora, MS in Madison, MS. She started picking at the guitar when she was 5 years. She is self taught and got her inspiration from her daddy, a sharecropper musician who played in juke joints and churches in and around Flora. She is the sister of bluesman, Paul “Wine” Jones who recorded on the Fat Possum…

Lightnin Malcolm

Lightnin Malcolm

Cutting edge Mississippi Bluesman Lightnin Malcolm, a charismatic and energetic guitarslinger with a deep soulful voice, has taken his irresistible dance grooves from Juke Joint teen years to World Stages with mainstream artists such as Robert Plant, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray, The Black Keys, Widespread Panic, Big Head Todd, North Mississippi Allstars, Lucero and Gary Clark Jr. Malcolm learned directly…