Singer, Songwriter, Entertainer Randy Ferguson returns to perform and serve as Blues Host of this year’s Oxford Blues Festival. Randy grew up in West Tennessee, 100 miles from Memphis and 100 miles from Nashville in the 70’s so it’s only natural that his songs contain elements of Blues, Country, Rock, Gospel and Rockabilly. A Blues Legend, Johnny Winter fan since…

MS Slideguitar and friends: Wendy Jean Garrison “msslideguitar” of Oxford, respects the blues, honors the lessons learned in a year-long apprenticeship with bluesman Bill Howl-N- Madd Perry, and has forged a style unique to her own life, through 25 years of performing in North Mississippi. She is profiled on the Mississippi Arts Commission website and is featured in the November…

“THE REAL DEAL”. As the title of his critically acclaimed Atlantic Records CD suggests, two time Grammy Award Nominee and 2016 Blues Music Award Winner, John Primer is truly “The Real Deal.” At 8 years old, John borrowed his first guitar and started to strum. Before that he played a homemade guitar built on the wall of the house with…

Deak Harp has been playing harmonica since he was 12 years old. His biggest early inspiration came when his brother introduced him to the music of James Cotton. Deak followed Cotton’s band along the east coast for close to five years before Cotton offered Deak a job driving his van. For the next six years, Deak toured with the James…

These Things Shall Pass is the tenth full-album release from Memphis-area musician Davis Coen, and fulfills his long-standing goal of recording an entire spiritual-based album. The album nods to a wide range of classic song selections, spanning from time-tested traditional American hymns, such as “What A Friend We Have In Jesus” and “Old Rugged Cross,” to classic gospel radio cuts…

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Steve Brewer, originally hails from Little Rock, Arkansas. He got a cheap electric guitar for Christmas when he was 15 and has been playing off and on ever since. He was first attracted to British blues rock guitarists, Eric Clapton and Alvin Lee, but then sought out their influences, including BB King, Big Bill Broonzy, Howling…

Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry and Shy Perry have travelled extensively as a duet and full band for years. They were recently one of the main musical acts on the European Blues Cruise 2016 that sailed on the Mediterranean Sea from Marseille, France to Naples, Rome, and Bastia, Italy. Bill and Shy performed in Marseille and had 5 shows on the ship…

Front-man, Zechariah Lloyd, was raised on cornbread and Jesus in the southern Mississippi delta by a church pianist and rock n’ roll drummer. He began playing drums at a young age on his father’s drumset – cutting his teeth on his Uncle’s Zeppelin and Skynyrd records. Zechariah started making headway as an artist in 2015 when he won the Vicksburg…