[vc_row bg_color=”#000000″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center”][vc_column width=”1/1″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline font=”font-special” size=”fontsize-xxxxxl” color=”#ffffff” weight=”fontweight-600″ lineheight=”lh-12″ margin=”0 0 0px 0″]DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2022 LINEUP[/minti_headline][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline font=”font-special” size=”fontsize-xxxl” color=”#ffffff” weight=”fontweight-600″ lineheight=”lh-12″ margin=”0 0 0px 0″]OCTOBER 13-16 • CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI[/minti_headline][minti_spacer height=”100″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_image img=”72857″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]JON Spencer & the HITmakers[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Jon Spencer is back, and he is ON FIRE! Get ready for Jon Spencer & the HITmakers to BURN your playhouse down with their new long-player, SPENCER GETS IT LIT! The incredible, indelible Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Pussy Galore, Heavy Trash, etc) is back with the incendiary HITmakers -and with his HOTTEST record yet! Spencer Gets It Litis classic Jon Spencer taken to the extremis–electro-boogie, constructivist art pop, a psychedelic swamp of industrial sleaze and futurist elegance. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the world’s weirdest garage. Across brain-boggling layers of fury, fuzz guitar, and a crash-bang battery of phaser blasts, photon torpedoes, and otherworldly zounds, he frantically spits, croons, rhapsodizes, and seduces. Spencer Gets It Lit is his most complex and groovy record in years, a dark, danceable odyssey–both a studied take-down of the early 21stcentury, and a celebration of the place where electricity meets the mind. Thirteen wicked hot songs of love, loss, lust, life—from the Farfisa-fueled, warped psycho-punk rave-up of “Junk Man,” to the intimate lover’s plea of “My Hit Parade,” to the outer-space end-of-days country funk of “Worm Town,” Spencer Gets It Lit delivers all of the friction, excitement, and post-modern depravity one could ever ask for! Says Spencer, “Send out the Hit Signal! This is the most uncompromising album I’ve ever made!” And the HITS just keep on coming![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]Rachel Ammons[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”150″][minti_image img=”72853″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_image img=”72854″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Robert Kimbrough Sr continues the Cotton Patch Soul Blues style created by his father, the legendary Junior Kimbrough. From an early age, Robert was steeped in the sounds and life of North Mississippi and its distinctive style of blues. Growing up, Robert listened, first-hand to Mississippi blues royalty that played with his father at home, at Junior’s Juke Joint Club, and the ever-frequent weekend house party and porch jam session. The blues was simply part of everyday life as a Kimbrough. Robert continues his father’s musical tradition, along with some of his siblings. You can often find many of them sharing the stage on any given night in Mississippi. The Kimbrough name, along with the Burnside name, is part of a blues dynasty that remains strong today, bringing people from all over the world to see and hear them play. The Cotton Patch Soul Blues style that Robert plays is a straight link to the music that his father originated in North Mississippi. It is a deep soul sound that can be linked back to his ancestors coming from the cotton fields, singing and ‘hollering‘ as they worked in the tall rows of Mississippi cotton. This distinct and somewhat underground style of blues is rooted in hypnotic rhythms and dance-able grooves.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]The Tiger Beats[/minti_headline][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”150″][minti_image img=”78261″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”150″][minti_image img=”73354″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]Buffalo Nichols[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Since his earliest infatuations with guitar, Buffalo Nichols has asked himself the same question: How can I bring the blues of the past into the future? After cutting his teeth between a Baptist church and bars in Milwaukee, it was a globetrotting trip through West Africa and Europe during a creative down period that began to reveal the answer. “Part of my intent, making myself more comfortable with this release, is putting more Black stories into the genres of folk and blues,” guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Carl “Buffalo” Nichols explains. “Listening to this record, I want more Black people to hear themselves in this music that is truly theirs.” That desire is embodied in his self-titled debut album—Fat Possum’s first solo blues signing in nearly 20 years—composed largely of demos and studio sessions recorded between Wisconsin and Texas. With his lyricism on Buffalo Nichols, he intends to provide a perspective that doesn’t lean heavily into stereotypes, generalizations or microaggressions regarding race, class and culture. The album sees Nichols wrestling with prescient topics, such as empathy, forgiveness, regret and loss. At the forefront of each song is Nichols’ rich voice and evocative, virtuosic guitar-playing, augmented on half of the nine tracks by a simple, cadent drum line. While acknowledging the joy, exuberance and triumph contained in the blues, Nichols looks intently at the genre’s origins, which harken back to complicated and dire circumstances for Black Americans. With this in mind, Nichols says there is a missing link, which he’s often used as a compass: Black stories aren’t being told responsibly in the genre anymore. To begin changing that, Buffalo Nichols gets the chance to tell his own story in the right way.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”100″][minti_headline color=”#000000″]HeartBreak Hill[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Hailing from North Carolina, HeartBreak Hill was nurtured on the sounds of NC artist like Link Wray and Nappy Brown. His debut, On the Floor, received notable attention and awards. Hill’s next release Tappin’ That Thang solidified his soulful raw sound. Since 2013, HeartBreak has toured with Rock N’ Soul artist Nikki Hill. May 2022 Hill toured Spain and released Here Comes HeartBreak recorded in Memphis TN
“Nikki Hill is a fiery performer, channeling some of rock & roll’s most heralded voices, revamping the squalls, screams and shouting-at- the-devil of rock’s pentecostal roots to a blazing new take that she can rightfully call her own, a soul that owes as much to AC/DC as Aretha.” — Okayplayer[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][minti_spacer height=”150″][minti_image img=”78265″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][minti_spacer][/vc_column][/vc_row]