Mississippi Blues Night with Willie Farmer and Ryan Lee Crosby

About This Event

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.
Willie Farmer is living proof that Mississippi continues to produce deep blues. The 65-year-old guitarist is neither a soul modernist nor a revivalist, but a small-town auto mechanic who’s never shaken his love for old-school legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

Date and Time

June 20, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

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