Browsing: Juke Joint Festival

“Half blues festival, half small-town fair and all about the Delta,” fest celebrates Mississippi’s living blues heritage and more!

The Juke Joint Festival, Thursday, April 11th through Saturday, April 16th, in Clarksdale, Mississippi is the unofficial blues festival season kickoff, and American Blues Scene will be covering the event in it’s entirety!

Growing up in Colombia some 2200 miles away from Clarksdale, Mississippi, didn’t stop Carlos Elliot, Jr. from feeling a mystic connection the first time he heard Blues music…

Jeff Norwood, the foot stompin’ South Carolina blues master who was an icon in both the Mississippi Delta and the deep south, has passed away unexpectedly.

At the Juke Joint Festival, we sat down to talk with an emerging talent with an exciting voice, Cleome.

We got a chance to visit Sturgis and Mandy from Low Society Band, the blues band with a great name who’s definitely not your grandpa’s blues music!

The good reverend opened up about his (now formerly) secret upcoming new album, it’s (now not secret!) name, and the band’s deceptively powerful, unique sound that’s made them a major crossover success while maintaining staunchly loyal to the old school blues that was their influence

We got the chance to speak with the powerful Texas cannonball Reverend K.M. Williams, an ordained minister and a striking modern version of old Texas country bluesmen like Lightnin’ Hopkins and guitar evangelists like Blind Willie Johnson. Check out what K.M. had to say!

We sat down at the Juke Joint Festival with the amazing Vizztone recording artist Fiona Boyes, who has a stunning powerhouse voice. We may have coaxed her to to give us an on-air show!

American Blues Scene is LIVE from the Juke Joint Festival. We’re at the Delta Music Experience Headquarters at the Little Pink Guesthouse