Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...
"I think the blues will always be around. People need it," guitar legend Johnny Winter famously said. And his words couldn't be more true than in Mississippi. Blues music has been passed down through ...
Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music. This is FRESH AIR.