Delta Traces, Released Oct 7th, 2024
Follow these Delta Traces through southern lands, on winding country roads and lonely highways where the dust of gumbo clay hangs heavy in the air, where songs are sung in the dark heat of juke joints and haunted encounters at legendary crossroads.
The music here flows thick as muddy water, passing the bluffs and the levees, the rows of white cotton rising from black soil, southbound by the river from Memphis to Storyville. Listen to the wailing rhythm of the blues harp and the sweet harmony of the gospel choir.
You are drawn to the church out in the field and the sharecropper’s shack aflame in the night. Your guides are the shooting star, Miss Spider Lily, and the convict bluesman, Goosie Willie, his mind forever fixed on the penitentiary electric chair.
Rose’s Shack is center stage, a hallowed ground alive with stories and songs of the land; the gospel and the walking blues, the jump-up stomping rock and roll boogie, the solitary country blues, mournful and slow, sung from a front porch on a hazy afternoon.
These are the roads that take you there, these Delta Traces, a musical landscape of the rural South.
