Jul 14, 2025 | Premier Guitar, Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Recording Old-School Music the Old-School Way “How a contemporary torchbearer of a traditional Delta blues style made a pair of albums in America’s oldest operating juke joint, the Blue Front Café, which opened 77 years ago in Bentonia, Mississippi.” ...
Jul 14, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby: At The Blue Front (2025) CD Review “And it was to Mississippi that he went to record the album, as might be clear from its title.” | Read More at Michael’s Music...
Jun 23, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Single Premiere: Ryan Lee Crosby, “Mistreating People” “Every time visionary electric 12-string guitarist Ryan Lee Crosby returns to New England after visiting Bentonia, Mississippi, the feeling he experiences is a kind of revelation–one that...
Jun 10, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
14 albums by New England musicians to listen to this summer “In recent years, Portsmouth, Rhode Island-based guitarist and songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby has immersed himself in the world of Delta blues.” | Read More at...
Jun 10, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
New Englander Ryan Lee Crosby teams with Bentonia blues master Jimmy “Duck” Holmes for Delta blues classic “Catfish” “Ryan Lee Crosby may not be from Mississippi, or anywhere near it, but that didn’t stop the under-45-year-old Rhode Islander from packing up his...
Jun 5, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby, “I’ve Been Worried” (Crossnote) “Ryan Lee Crosby has been schooling with some of the originals, paying his dues on the blues and American primitive guitar circuit for the last ten years and all that hard work is slowly but...
May 27, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Go inside the haunted heart of Bentonia blues with Ryan Lee Crosby. “When Ryan Lee Crosby plays, his music doesn’t just summon the ghosts of Delta blues — he communes with them.” | Read More at American Blues...
Apr 30, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
“Crosby packed his 1980s Tascam 22-4 four-track portable reel-to-reel tape machine into the backseat of a borrowed Toyota Venza, bracing it amid the roar of a passing freight train outside the Blue Front.” | Read More at Grateful...
Apr 29, 2025 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby, “Catfish” “Crosby learned the song from Holmes, a Grammy nominee and the proprietor of the Blue Front, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi.” | Read More at...
Nov 22, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Mississippi Ghosts Haunt the Deep Blues of Ryan Lee Crosby on Winter Hill Blues “At 32, Ryan Lee Crosby heard the music of Skip James for the first time, and it changed his life.” | Read More at Acoustic...
Aug 25, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby Has His Foot in Two Worlds “Bentonia is a couple of thousand miles away from Boston, but it’s where Crosby finds his muse.” | Read More at American Blues...
Aug 15, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby joins us to talk all about his stunning new Bentonia Blues album “He also shares lessons he has learned studying under the legendary Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes.” | Read More at Blues In the...
Jun 8, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby Brings The Heat And The Cold To Winter Hill Blues “Winter Hill Blues pulls from Crosby’s development over a period of years, with many of the songs hailing from his live performance history, particularly in Europe, where he came to know the songs...
