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To call Seattle-based songstress Lady A a “busy woman” would be a pretty laughable understatement. Despite the many limitations imposed by a global pandemic to similarly grounded artists, she is finding more than enough ways to occupy the downtime: When she’s not working during the day as a senior administrator with Seattle’s Race And Social Justice Initiative, she is mentoring youth through The Rhapsody Project, DJing one of multiple radio shows with online radio station NWCZ or KMRE-FM, producing a Moments In Black History series for her YouTube channel, planning an annual women’s empowerment luncheon a sold-out event that welcomes 400-plus guests every year or she might spend a quiet night in, managing her website. Through it all, she’s preparing for her next performance as Seattle’s premier jazz act with her band, the Baby Blues Funk Band. “Being an independent artist is hard,” the 62-year-old told
John Fusco & The X-Road Riders –
John The Revelator (Self-produced): “More than three decades after a teenaged Fusco ran away from his New England home to Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta returning with a semi-autobiographical screenplay called Crossroads (and an unlikely discovery as a Hollywood screenwriter) the writer-musician returned to his old Southern stomping grounds. He was back in the Delta to film his Netflix hit The Highwaymen, but a series of impromptu jam sessions with Cody Dickinson, whose father Jim had been a music advisor on Crossroads, turned into an album of Fusco’s original blues. For John the Revelator, Fusco has assembled a cast of modern blues stars: Dickinson (the North Mississippi Allstars), who produced Fusco’s first, appears behind the board again and also contributes background vocals, drums, bass, guitars, dobro, piano, and electric washboard. Vocalist Risse Norman, who has toured and recorded with the North Mississippi Allstars and Sama