The blues is nearly 200 years old and arguably so beloved of a genre that the notion of it requiring innovation could easily be balked at. That's the intrigue at the crux of the Grammy-winning rise of ...

After two studio LPs and one live album for Alligator Records – which helped establish him as a rising star and likely future of the blues – Ingram has boldly charted his own path. Ingram had just ...

If you ask the modern torch-bearers of the blues, people like Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal, they will tell you that Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is the new game in town. He is providing a youthful, modern, ...

I first heard Kingfish live in 2013 at Red’s Juke Joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi, one of the last authentic juke joints in the south. Kingfish was just 14 years old, already spilling over with ...

For 24-year-old Grammy-winning blues guitarist and singer Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, growing up in the shadows of musical giants like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Robert Johnson — who were ...

There are people who can play the blues and then there are people who can play the blues. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is by far the latter of the two. Ingram, 24, hails from Clarksdale, Miss., a small ...

Listen to Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's set above, or stream 2022's Holiday Cheer for FUV: Live from the Beacon Theatre in its entirety. Conversations and frank exchanges were an undertow to this ...

Young Mississippi blues stars Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Mr. Sipp and veteran artist Bobby Rush are among the top acts nominated for the 2024 Blues Music Awards. This week, the Memphis-based ...

Blues guitarist-singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram hails from Clarksdale, Miss., a small town where blues culture runs deep. "Clarksdale is pretty much the mecca of the blues, pretty much the ...

Metro Concerts Live announced Wednesday that prodigy jazz and blues performer Kingfish will perform in Sioux Falls this summer. He’ll headline an all-ages concert Thursday, July 10, at Icon Event Hall ...