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Blues. Veel mooier wordt het niet, ben ik bang.


Ryan Lee Crosby’s new album ‘Winter Hill Blues’ captures the timeless power of music from the Mississippi Delta, refracted by influences of Hindustani slide guitar and Crosby’s own unique approach to the style. Its nine songs resonate with a sound and spirit forged from his life as a traveling musician and his studies with masters of the Delta and Indian traditions. Produced by Fat Possum Records’ Bruce Watson at his Delta-Sonic Sound studio in Memphis.
 
“Jimmy “Duck” Holmes has expressed to me the importance of storytelling in the blues, with an emphasis on singing about either what you have experienced personally or something someone you know has gone through. In this recording, I riffed on a lyric I heard Jimmy sing: “Slow Down, you’re going too fast” and added my own lines and perspective to it. This song has been like a mantra for me and continues to evolve with time. When I play it now, it feels like an homage to Bentonia, Mississippi, but also a way to practice what I’ve learned from going there, not only technically, but also spiritually”.

Today, Crosby’s most crucial influence remains 74-year-old Holmes, who is his mentor and the leading proponent of Bentonia blues—a haunting style characterized by high singing and eerie minor-key melodies, played on open-tuned guitars, that emanates from the small central-Delta town that lends the music its name. After a series of European solo tours that became an odyssey of musical self-discovery through playing long sets and traveling many hours alone, reflecting on his music and life, Crosby’s thirst for new inspiration and his fascination with the Bentonia sound led him there in 2019. He traveled south from his Boston-area home to begin his apprenticeship with Holmes, who learned to play from the Bentonia style’s inventor, Henry Stuckey, and Stuckey’s inheritor Jack Owens. In 2021, Crosby was heralded by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the young torchbearers of style.

Tracks:
01 - I'm Leaving
02 - Winter Hill Blues
03 - Down so Long
04 - Eight Years Gone
05 - Going to Bentonia
06 - Was It the Devil_
07 - Institution Blues
08 - Slow Down
09 - Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Do

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