Christone "Kingfish" Ingram comes bursting out of Clarksdale, Mississippi, with a sensational debut packed with piercing guitar, husky, impassioned singing and potent songwriting. He's only 20 years old but has taken the blues scene by storm; he just came off a tour supporting Buddy Guy and is ready to bring the Blues to Chico.
$15 Advance tickets available at Chico Paper Co., Blaze N' J's and the KZFR Office or CLICK HERE
Local blues men, Big Mo and the Full Moon Band open the show at 7:30pm (Doors at 6:30pm) Partially seated show, get there early for best seats. Beer from Sierra Nevada.
Sprung from the same earth as so many of the Delta blues masters, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram comes bursting out of Clarksdale, Mississippi, just ten miles from the legendary crossroads of Highways 61 and 49. A student of the Delta’s musical history, he is acutely aware of the musicians and the music that emerged from his corner of the world. “I do think I have an old soul, that I’ve been here before,” he says. “I’m moving forward with one foot in the past. You don’t see too many kids into blues music. In my town, every kid wants to be a rapper – I wanted to do something no one else was doing.” And although he grew up near the crossroads where Robert Johnson allege dly cut a deal with the devil, Kingfish insists he didn’t do any of that to make his guitar howl the blues. “I just practice all the time,” he says, “that’s the only deal I made, and it’s with myself."
