Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood at the Bentonia Blues Festival 2013

Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood is a remarkably-versatile blues and soul artist who, like Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Terry “Harmonica” Bean, records for the amazing Broke and Hungry Records label out of St. Louis. He performs every Saturday night at Jackson, Mississippi’s only juke joint, the Queen of Hearts on Martin Luther King Junior Drive, and can be frequently seen elsewhere in the Delta, especially in Clarksdale. Any performance of his is likely to run the gamut from primitive country blues to electric soul, and is always worth seeing.