Mississippi Sheiks News

Music from the new Mississippi Sheiks tribute CD, Things About Comin' My Way , will air on the global internet radio station www.allmemphismusic.com . The tribute CD features performances by John Hammond, The North Mississippi Allstars, Bruce Cockburn, Geoff Muldaur, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux, Danny Barnes and The Carolina Chocolate Drops, ...

The Mississippi Sheiks were once the most popular blues band in Mississippi and are best known for their oft-covered 1930 hit Sittin' On Top of the World.

On Sunday night at Jefferson Center, about midway through his set, Robert Cray picked out a familiar country-blues melody -- Robert Johnson 's "Come On In My Kitchen." At least, that's what I was hearing, because I'm a big Johnson fan.

Gettin' away from mule toots A new blues album celebrates the Mississippi Sheiks, whose singer once revealed the reason he took up the musician's life Brad Wheeler From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Oct.

The idea of a compilation CD can seem risky at times because there's a great possibility for inconsistencies between contributing artists.

The Texas Sheiks Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks Following in the footsteps of legendary string and jug bands the Mississippi Sheiks and the Beale Street Sheiks, storied blues singer/jug-band vet Geoff Muldaur assembled a formidable roots-music team: Cindy Cashdollar , Suzy Thompson , Johnny Nicholas , Bruce Hughes , Stephen Bruton and guest ...

The history of slide guitar goes back to Africa, where musicians playing one-stringed violins used bones or similarly shaped and smooth-surfaced objects to vary the pitch of their string.

The folk blues song Sitting on Top of the World has been done by so many great musicians over the years that I thoght I would do a post on it.