Feeling the blues

Grammy-winning BLUES musician Christone ‘KINGFISH’ Ingram carries on the rich LEGACY of the genre rooted in his HOMETOWN of Clarksdale in the Mississippi DELTA.

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has been hailed the ‘future of the blues’ since he burst onto the music scene as a teenage guitar prodigy in the Mississippi Delta. He's been named on Rolling Stone‘s 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list and, at just 23 years old, won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2022, making him the youngest winner in the category's history. His winning album, 662, is named for the area code of the north Mississippi Delta – a region known as the home of the blues and a place that sits at the heart of Kingfish's music. “[The Delta] is where I was born and raised, and where I found my love for music. So many influential musicians have lived or passed through here –…

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International Traveller (Digital) - 1 Issue, March - May 2025

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