Though the Mississippi Delta's Willie Farmer and Rhode Island's Ryan Lee Crosby come from different backgrounds, they are each dedicated to performing Mississippi blues music. Farmer -- a Big Legal Mess and Music Maker Foundation artist from Duck Hill, MS -- focuses on Delta- and Memphis-style blues while Crosby performs the stomping North Mississippi and the haunting Bentonia, MS blues. (Skip James is from Bentonia, MS.) The Memphis Flyer terms Farmer's last recording a "great album." Though Crosby is a yankee, he has spent considerable time in Memphis and Mississippi and is mentored by GRAMMY Award nominee and juke joint proprietor Jimmy "Duck" Holmes.
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