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In Mississippi, small-town bluesman keeps aging music alive
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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.
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Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost.
And no place has produced more influential American bluesmen and women than the Mississippi Delta. So it s only fitting to celebrate some of the most noted musicians who came from Mississippi or whose ties to the genre were formed here.