Part Two of our North Mississippi Hill Country Blues series — Eric Deaton on learning the music at the juke joints where it was made.
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.
How Luther Dickinson channels moonshine, memory, and modernity into the living pulse of Hill Country blues, told in a wide-ranging conversation.