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by Steve Newton on February 20th, 2021 at 1:24 PM 1 of 7 2 of 7
When Louisiana slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth played the Rio Theatre in August of 2019, those who arrived early enough to see the opening act got a real treat. It was a local Mississippi transplant named Robert Connely Farr, who d been blowing people away with his album from the previous year,
Dirty South Blues.
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Turns out Farr had been contacted online a month earlier by the folks at the Canadian Pacific Blues Society who were promoting the show. They wanted their own copy of the album. That was the thing, recalls Farr from his home in East Van, that album just kinda took off; there was so much happening with it.