The "Modern Mississippi Music" makers return to Cleveland for the first time in 19 years with their latest album "Still ...

“I'm pushing it a little bit when I try to play jazz,” Walker says with ... to meet in those early San Francisco days: Mississippi Fred McDowell and Earl Hooker. “Both of them played slide ...

In 2023, he released his last album “Weight of the World.” He learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell, opened for Muddy Waters, recorded with B.B. King and hung out with Jimi Hendrix.

However, that hasn’t stopped them from returning to their roots on occasion, and when they’ve felt the need to spice things up again after a period of feeling like things were getting stagnant, ...

Though she began by majoring in African studies with plans to do ... play some blues for you now, and not worry about singing, I'd play what I feel is real good. I'd have liked to play more Fred ...

"So, that's what I want to do because I love the game still, dearly, and I still can play, but I do not want to play. So, let's just get that out there -- I can still play, but I do not want to play.

I’m not sure what’s “influence” and what’s lived experience at this point. Probably it’s all the same. Fred McDowell is dead, so I learned from him via recordings (Bill Ferris’s, to be exact), but I ...

Mississippi Fred McDowell ... musician until the mid-'60s. Fred McDowell was a master of Delta country blues and the slide guitar. His approach is not complex, but it has the feel. Some players can ...

In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi ... your live album, you do a tribute to Fred McDowell. You play part of "Write Me A Few ...

Her intention was to hang with blues legends Mississippi Fred McDowell ... The mix of what I do is what makes it stand out,” she says. “If I didn’t play guitar the way I did, I would ...

Not all reading this will know who Rory Block ... one might ask who Bukka White is. Do you remember the song "Shake 'em On Down" from the Mississippi Fred McDowell tribute? White composed it. After ...