Christone "Kingfish" Ingram performing during the Father of the Bride Tour at the ACL Live Moody Theater in Austin, Texas on August 21, 2019.
Once a generation, a blues artist comes along who not only reminds mainstream audiences how deeply satisfying and emotionally moving the best blues music can be, but shakes the genre to its core. With both eyes on the future and the blues in his blood, 20-year-old guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone "Kingfish" Ingram is set to take the music world by storm with the long-awaited release of his debut album, KINGFISH, on Alligator Records.Christone "Kingfish" Ingram shared the stage with Vampire Weekend at the ACL Live Moody Theater. The band continues across the United States and Canada with the last stop at the Tampa Bay Blues Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 3, 2020.
Sprung from the same earth as so many of the Delta blues masters, Kingfish 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."
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
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