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FOUNDATION
Teaching Music Industry Studies in the most unique facilities in the South
FOUNDATION
Teaching Music Industry Studies in the most unique facilities in the South
Hilpert and Trisha letters other lettersHilpert and Trisha letters other letters
DEAR FELLOW BLUES LOVERS, Thank you so much for celebrating the blues this weekend.
As you know, my organization, explore.org, is pleased to support the Delta Music Institute through Delta State University with a grant of $250,000.
The blues is such an important part of our American musical heritage. Here in Mississippi liethe heart and soul of the blues so there’s no better place for my philanthropy to help keep it alive and well. We need to make sure that our children and young adults embrace this art form for generations to come.
I’m proud to know that our contribution will help maintain scholarships as a top priority. I urge all of you to take a moment to learn more about what Delta State University is doing.
Thank you all for making this weekend happen.
All My Best,
Charles Annenberg Weingarten Founder of explore.org
Hilpert and Trisha letters other lettersHilpert and Trisha letters other letters
WELCOME TO BLESSISSIPPI,On behalf of Delta State University I welcome you to the Mississippi Delta, the Home of American Music. Our Delta Music Institute is grateful for the chance to help with this event and to promote the culture and traditions of this unique region. We are blessed to call the Delta home, and we are glad to welcome everyone to our home.
The Blessissippi Crossroads Concert is a one-of-a-kind happening. We’re proud that it is hosted by one of Delta State’s most famous honorary degree recipients, Dr. Morgan Freeman. His contributions to the Delta enable students to realize their dreams, and his presence here is yet another example of his determination to help others succeed.
Our appreciation extends to the Annenberg Foundation for their generous support of this event and the Delta Music Institute. Likewise, we thank everyone whose help has made this
glorious evening possible. Enjoy your evening!
John M. Hilpert,
President, Delta State University
WELCOME, Y’ALL, TO THE BLESSISSIPPI CROSSROADS CONCERT!The Delta Music Institute is grateful to the Annenberg Foundation for their support of the Delta Music Institute, our music industry studies program at Delta State University. Their generous contribution will enable the DMI to develop many exciting opportunities for nurturing creativity in the youth of the Mississippi Delta. The Mississippi Delta is without question the birthplace of the Blues, and it would be almost impossible to dispute the fact that, without Mississippi, there would be no American music. Mississippi proudly lays claim to the King of the Blues, the Father of Country Music, the King of Rock and Roll, and more GRAMMY™ winners per capita than any other state in the Union. Thank you all for coming to the Blessissippi Crossroads Concert! We appreciate your continued support of the Delta Music Institute and all the young musicians in the Delta.
Tricia Walker,
Director, Delta Music Institute
DMI Call to action
GROUND ZERO BLUES CLUB IS PLEASED TO HOST THE BLESSISSIPPI CONCERT! Morgan and I sincerely appreciate the hard work put into this event by Jerry Cope, Gary Vincent and Robin Young. We are friends of Delta State University and know that students of music will flourish under its programs. Enjoy the evening.
Bill Luckett
THE ROAD TO BLESSISSIPPI HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF A SEMI-EPIC ADVENTURE.From the Crossroads in Clarksdale and grocking with Morgan and Bill to dinner with Bobby Keys, Dougie and Robert in Nashville, Don, Nina and the Rock N’ Roll tour of the Gibson factory, Bill Wax everywhere at the IBC, and being accosted by John Jacob in Memphis, we have been blessed with every aspect of this production. To everyone who gave us a hand, or a cocktail, you know who you are and we love you—especially the Gibson Foundation, Peavey, Pearl Drums, Canon, and Ground Zero Blues Club.
The Mississippi Delta is the soul of American music. Combine the deep rich soil of the Delta with the people who live there and the result is a particular form of musical magic that has spread around the world. It has been our honor to work in some small way to ensure that unique tradition is passed on for future generations. Our only request of you the audience is this: please be generous and help us and all of the artists performing tonight in supporting the educational programs at Delta State University. Celebrate the Blues with us and a heartfelt thank you for being part of this very special evening where it all began.
Jerry Cope & Gary Vincent Producers
DMI Call to action
Mississippi can rightfully lay claim to being Ground Zero for great American music.
Donate to the Delta Music Institute and help us develop the next generation of Mississippi musicians!
Your donations to the programs of the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University
will increase the number of young students that will be directly impacted by our music
and music technology curriculum. Your donations will be used to help cover operational
expenses of the DMI Mobile Music Lab, allowing more visits to more schools; to provide
scholarship funds for underserved students interested in attending DMI Summer Camp; and
to provide scholarship opportunities for talented and need-based students seeking a four-
year degree in music industry studies at DSU.
To make a donation to the DMI,
scan the QR code with your smart
phone, email [email protected]
or call 662.846.4579.
Headliner 1 Headliner 2
The history of rock ‘n’ roll is littered with musical
prodigies, charismatic storytellers, oblivion-
seeking omnivores and odds-defying survivors
whose contributions to the soundtracks of our
lives have attained for them—or at least their
work—a measure of immortality. Rarely, though,
do all of these traits come together in the form
of a single person as they do in the case of
legendary saxophone player Bobby Keys.
From years on the road during the waning days
of early rock ‘n’ roll with hitmakers like Bobby
Vee and the various acts on Dick Clark’s Caravan
of Stars Tour through decades as top touring
and session sax man for the likes of Elvis Presley,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, George Harrison,
Delaney & Bonnie, Joe Cocker, B.B. King, Keith
Moon, Sheryl Crow and countless others, and
onto, perhaps most famously, an ongoing gig
as a de facto Rolling Stone from 1970 onward,
Bobby’s raw talent and outsized personality have
elevated him from sideman to something closer
to a rock ‘n’ roll icon.
Bobby’s life has been a sort of rock ‘n’ roll folk tale . . . his experiences reflect the coming of age of rock ‘n’ roll itself.
Headliner 1 Headliner 2
You can’t get that with flash and dazzle; you
have to earn it with substance. Elton John, for
one, would tell you that Bill Payne, co-founder
of Little Feat, is a player’s player, one of the
finest keyboardists in the entire rock world.
His trademark barrelhouse blues piano, along
with a powerful but sensitive attack on the
Hammond B-3, have made him a popular session
man, working with Jimmy Buffett, James Taylor,
Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, Phil Lesh, J.J. Cale,
the Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie
Raitt, Rodney Crowell, Bryan Adams and Pink
Floyd. And when he doesn’t play, he writes songs,
and his credits include Feat’s Oh, Atlanta. He’s
presently working with Grateful Dead lyricist
Robert Hunter on a number of songs destined for
the next Little Feat album.
When he isn’t seated at a keyboard, he has a
camera in his hand, and his photographs have
been shown in various galleries. Two ears and
two eyes . . . Bill Payne seems to get more out of
the package than most.
Among musicians, the highest compliment is when someone is a “player’s player.”
Born James Whiting, he was raised in Harlem,
New York, where his mother was a singer and
dancer at the fabled Apollo Theatre. He spent
his childhood among the musicians and show
people who knew his mother, including the great
Billie Holiday, and decided that he wanted to be
a performer.
Blue has played and recorded with musicians
ranging from Willie Dixon to Stan Getz to Frank
Zappa to Johnny Shines to Bob Dylan . . . he is
perhaps best known for his signature riff and
solo on the Rolling Stones’ hit Miss You from
their Some Girls album. Blue performs his own
version of the song on his 1993 Alligator debut
Blue Blazes.
Sugar Blue incorporates what he has learned
into his visionary and singular style—technically
dazzling yet wholly soulful. He bends, shakes,
spills flurries of notes with simultaneous
precision and abandon, combining dazzling
technique with smoldering expressiveness and
gives off enough energy to light up several
square city blocks. And he sings too!
Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso Sugar Blue is not your typical bluesman . . .
Despite her considerable Pop music success,
her 39-year career could best be described
as a long and adventurous odyssey through
the various forms of American Roots Music.
During the folk revival of the early ‘60s, she
began exploring and singing early Blues,
Bluegrass, Appalachian “Old Timey” music,
beginning her recording career in 1963 with
the Even Dozen Jug Band and shortly thereafter
joining the very popular Jim Kweskin Jug Band,
touring and recording with them throughout
the ‘60s.
In the 39 years since Midnight at the Oasis
Maria has toured extensively worldwide and
has recorded 39 solo albums, covering all kinds
of American Roots music, including Gospel,
R&B, Jazz and Big Band (not to mention several
award-winning children’s albums), before settling
comfortably into her favorite idiom, the Blues,
in recent years. Often joining forces with some
of the top names in the business, Maria has
recorded and produced on average an album per
year, several of which have been nominated for
Grammy and other awards.
Maria Muldaur is best known world wide for her ‘74 mega-hit Midnight at the Oasis.
Albert Bashor is a Mississippi Delta and Chicago
Blues musician. He is a singer, songwriter and
guitarist whose years of experience include
playing the Blues circuit around the world with
bands such as Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change
Band, Dr. Hector and the Groove Injectors, Alex
Taylor (James Taylor’s brother), Bo Diddley and
James Peterson.
Traveling the circuit gave him the creative
mojo to create authentic blues music, including
releases like, Rollin’ and Tumblin’ and Jukin’
Down Johnson Street. The respect that Bashor
has for the music penetrates through his songs
and recordings. Bashor is hardly new to the
scene. He is a regular session player at now-
defunct Kingsnake Records, and he has recorded
with the likes of Noble Thin Man Watts, Nat
Aderley, Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, Chicago Bob
Nelson and Lucky Peterson.
Every track tells a story and brings the listener along on a ride they will never forget.
Since the success of his first record, Blues Come Home to
Roost, Johnson has been busy performing solo and with his
band, The Fighting Cocks, at festivals and clubs throughout the
U.S. and Europe. He has also continued to release recordings at
a steady pace.
Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry, performer & songwriter, was born
the son of a moonshiner in Tula, Mississippi. Bill has traveled
the world performing, opening in Juke Joints and in the most
sophisticated venues.
Dr. Alphonso Sanders is the Director of the B.B. King Recording
Studio and the Chair of Fine Arts at Mississippi Valley State
University. Dr. Sanders has performed at many local, regional
and international festivals and is a regular at most of the
Mississippi Clubs and Jooks.
T-Model thinks he’s seventy-five but isn’t sure. Whatever the
year, he’s still cussing, fighting and outdrinking men a quarter
his age. It’s not unusual for T-Model to play eight hours a night.
He keeps going until no one’s left standing.
With his soulful blues guitar licks, rich blues voice, iconic blues
hats and great facial gestures as he plays, King is the real deal.
A regular performer at the legendary Subway Lounge, King was
featured in the documentary Last of the Mississippi Jukes and
has been honored with three blues markers.
Jerry Jemmott, one of the preeminent session bassists of
the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, has worked with an impressive
cross-section of the era’s finest soul, jazz and blues artists from
Aretha Franklin to Herbie Hancock. He currently tours with the
Allman Brothers Band and plays around Mississippi.
Back in the day, Mickey toured internationally with the
Temptations, was Willie Foster’s band leader and played with
the Rolling Stones. Considered a master of the guitar, he is
featured in H.C. Porter’s The Legends of the Blues at Home.
Robert Belfour is one of the few living links to the raw
and primitive tradition of Mississippi blues. His style of blues
is rooted in the Mississippi Hill Country, a unique one-chord
style that lends a more primitive and raw feel to the music.
DIRECTOR Doug Gilmore
LINE PRODUCER Robert Eva
STAGE PRODUCER John Magnusson
STAGE MANAGER Mike West
LIVE SOUND Walt Busby
PRESS LIASON Robin Young
“The Amazing Jimmi Mayes” has played drums for major
artists from Marvin Gaye to Jimi Hendrix. He has issued two
albums of his work and has just collaborated on a book about
his life while continuing to play and sing.
Rick Lewis has been playing drums for over 30 years and is
best known for his funky playing and great drum shuffle. Rick
was a regular drummer for King Edward at the famous Subway
Lounge in Jackson and was featured in Last of the Mississippi
Jukes.
Abdul Rasheed began his career as a bass player and vocalist
with King Edward. A regular vocalist at the Subway Lounge,
Abdul was featured in Last of the Mississippi Jukes and is a
host for Blue Monday every week at Hal & Mal’s in Jackson.
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