Up until this year’s Hill Country Picnic, every performance I have heard from Alvin Youngblood Hart has been a solo acoustic effort, a style at …
Oxford-based alt-country band Blue Mountain has broken up before and then reunited, so their fans are hopeful that the band’s end is not forever, but …
The legacy of R. L. Burnside was and still is truly amazing. He left not only an important body of recorded music in the Hill …
British bluesman Ian Siegal made history this year as the first foreign blues musician to perform at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. Siegal’s style …
T-Model Ford was for many years a crowd favorite at the Hill Country Picnic, but poor health has made it impossible for him to perform …
Vicksburg native George McConnell first gained notice as a member of Oxford area bands like Beanland and Kudzu Kings. Eventually, he became a member of …
Although Americans tend to think about music in terms of a sacred/secular divide, that difference was never a part of African culture, where the everyday …
Duwayne Burnside plays with his band and special guests Kinny Kimbrough and Kenny Brown on the first night of the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Waterford, Mississippi, 6/28/13
David Kimbrough plays on the dulcimer in a duo with his drummer at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Waterford, Mississippi on Friday, 6/28/13
