How the filmmaker, provocateur, and Panther Burns founder documented North Mississippi blues and forged his own art-action response in Memphis.
Author: Jack Austin
Jack Austin
Jack Austin is a Chicago-based music journalist covering blues and American roots music. He is a radio DJ (Electric Chicken) and co-founder of Crossroads Chicago Radio. A poet and bad guitar player, he writes with an ear for regional scenes, musical lineage, and the people who keep the blues alive.
Hill Country blues as inheritance and trance: Kinney Kimbrough, Kody Harrell, and Eric Deaton share the rhythm, lineage, and joy behind North Mississippi’s hypnotic sound.
What it means to carry on the Burnside blues tradition: “I write for somebody else; you never know how that song might help a person.”
G. Love has always lived at the intersections—between blues and hip-hop, porch and pavement, tradition and instinct. Here, Garrett Dutton talks about the harmonica that opened the door, the records that stayed with him, and the sound that emerged when he stopped trying to belong to any one place.
Part Two of our North Mississippi Hill Country Blues series — Eric Deaton on learning the music at the juke joints where it was made.
How Luther Dickinson channels moonshine, memory, and modernity into the living pulse of Hill Country blues, told in a wide-ranging conversation.