Not all blues sounds the same — and the difference between Delta Blues and Hill Country Blues might be the most important distinction you've never heard of.
You know Delta blues. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, the sound that built rock and roll. But hill country blues — born in the same northern Mississippi soil — is something older and stranger. Built on drone-based grooves by the likes of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, it doesn't tell you a story. It puts you in a trance.
This spring we're going deep on that tradition. On May 6, North Mississippi Allstars bring the living sound- raw, loud, and locked in. Then on May 23, Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings deliver the slide guitar mastery that keeps the whole thing honest. Two separate nights, one deep education.
