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Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes playing the next MBP concert at World Cafe Live in October

August 22, 2012
Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes playing the next MBP concert at World Cafe Live in October

Mark your calendars now for the next show in the Mississippi Blues Project series. On Monday, October 22nd, Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. Guitarist Holmes, in his mid-Sixties, is from Bentonia, Mississippi and is the owner of the […]

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Photo Recap: Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project showcase at the Philadelphia Folk Festival

August 21, 2012
Photo Recap: Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project showcase at the Philadelphia Folk Festival

The Philadelphia Folk Festival hosted the first in a series of four Mississippi Blues Project showcases on Sunday, August 19th with Cedric Burnside Project and Big George Brock. The show was hosted by the host of the WXPN Blues Show, […]

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Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project at the Philadelphia Folk Festival

August 19, 2012
Photo by Lou Bopp

The first of the four Mississippi Blues Project concerts takes place today at the Philadelphia Folk Festival featuring the Cedric Burnside Project and Big George Brock. The show starts at 2PM in the Lobby Tent. Below, listen to a song […]

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Get to know: Jessie Mae Hemphill

August 14, 2012
Get to know: Jessie Mae Hemphill

Jesse Mae Hemphill was an award-winning electric guitarist, singer and songwriter who specialized in Northern Mississippi country blues. She was born in 1934 near Como and Senatobia, Mississippi in Northern Mississippi just east of the Mississippi Delta. According to Livin […]

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Required watching: We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads

August 14, 2012
Owner Arnold Lopez at the Do Drop Inn in Shelby, MS. Photo by Lou Bopp

We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads is the new film and music project from the makers of the award-winning blues movie M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues. We […]

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Essential listening: Big George Brock

August 4, 2012
Essential listening:  Big George Brock

Big George Brock is one of the Mississippi Blues Project featured artists. We asked Jonny Meister, who helped curate this series, and the host The Blues Show and Blues And Beyond on WXPN on Saturdays at 7PM ET, to suggest […]

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Listen to the Mississippi Blues Project Spotify playlist

July 30, 2012

To celebrate our year long Mississippi Blues Project, we put together this Spotify playlist of music from a variety of blues musicians. Where available we included the Mississippi Blues Project Featured Artists along with some other legendary Mississippi born blues […]

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B.B. King: Born in Mississippi

July 26, 2012
B.B. King: Born in Mississippi

One of the masters of the blues – B.B. King – was born on September 16th, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. He was influenced by his Mississippi roots and Texas musicians like T-Bone Walker. Watch some videos of King’s live performances throughout the years.

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The North Mississippi All Stars: keeping the Delta blues alive

July 25, 2012
Photo by Jason Thrasher

The North Mississippi All-Stars have been keeping the Delta Blues alive since the band’s 2000 debut Shake Hands With Shorty. Featuring brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew, the trio’s music has deep roots in the Mississippi hill country blues, influenced by R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.

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Big George Brock, Cedric Burnside Project to appear the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th

July 20, 2012
Big George Brock, Cedric Burnside Project to appear the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th

The first concert in our Mississippi Blues Project concert series is happening on Sunday, August 19th at the Philadelphia Folk Festival with Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project.

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Listen to “Smokestack Lightning” by Big George Brock

July 17, 2012
Listen to “Smokestack Lightning” by Big George Brock

One of the Mississippi Blues Project’s featured artists is Big George Brock, who is performing on Sunday, August 19th at the Philadelphia Folk Festival with the Cedric Burnside Project. Brock’s gritty and raw blues has its roots in the Delta […]

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Back porch singing with Cedric Burnside

July 17, 2012
Back porch singing with Cedric Burnside

The Cedric Burnside Project, along with Big George Brock are our first two Mississippi blues artists to be featured in our Mississippi Blues Project concert series. They’ll be performing at the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th. Go here […]

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