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Saturday, May 10, 2008 at beautiful Chatauqua Park ~ Crystal Springs, MS
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Tyler Bryant Band ~ Born in Texas. On the 24th of February 1991, is where it began. Tyler's interest in music started early whether it was watching Elvis or his Papaw Booker play the guitar. At age seven, Tyler received his first guitar and his fate was decided. One day, while playing in Paris, an African American noticed Tyler's talent. Mr. Roosevelt Twitty. from a band named Lakeside Blues, gave Tyler a start . After a while Tyler formed his own band the Tyler Dow Bryant Band along with Ben and Andy Alsup. Tyler has worked with Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Chris Duarte, Brent Rowan, Albert Lee, Steve Lukather, Don and Donnie Nelson, Sean Neff, Wes Jeans, Alan Haynes, Dickey Betts, and many more. On May 5, 2007, Steven and Michael Johnson presented Tyler with the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation's New Generation Award, naming him the most promising blues artist of 2007.He has been backed by God and his family since the beginning, and whether he is traveling across Europe, or taking the United States by storm, you DO NOT want to miss the Tyler Dow Bryant Band.

Honeyboy Edwards ~ David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Mississippi.  There he taught himself  how to play the guitar by listening to area blues men like Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway.  By the age of fourteen, he was playing Delta juke joints and picnics with Big Joe Williams .  After learning the ropes he went out on his ownand played with people like McClennan, Robert Johnson, Big Walter Horton, and Yank Rachell,   Edwards  didn't record commercially until he got to Houston in 1951 and recorded his hit song, Drop Down Mama, in 1953.   David "Honeyboy" Edwards eventually settled in Chicago in the mid-50's.  In the '60s he resumed his recording career and began to play some festivals.  He toured Europe and Japan during the 70s and 80s and performed at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife, the Chicago Blues Festival, and the San Francisco Blues Festival. He currently records for the Chicago-based Earwig label.  In 1992, they released his album, Delta Bluesman.  This work includes Honeyboy's original Library of Congress recordings and his songs of the 1940's.  Honeyboy still performs widely despite his age of 84.  In 1998 he published his autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin' and has an album with the same name.

Muddy Waters Reunion Band ~
Hubert Sumlin grew up playing his guitar with harmonica great James Cotton. In 1949 at the age of eighteen he became Howlin' Wolf's lead guitarist, a position he held down for the next twenty-five years, except for a brief six-month stint in Muddy Waters' band. He has played with Pinetop Perkins, Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and countless others. In a way, Hubert Sumlin is, in essence, the pure joy of the music. He lives it, embodies it, and walks around with it every single day.
Bob Margolin is a Blues guitar player and singer, carrying on the “old school” Chicago Blues style and creating original music today. From 1973-1980, I played guitar in the band of Chicago Blues legend Muddy Waters, touring worldwide and recording, and learning to play Muddy’s powerful music directly from him. In 1980, I started my own band and I’m still on the road and recording.
Tom "Mookie" Brill was raised in Brooklyn and worked in Blues and Rock'n'Roll bands in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina through the '80s. From '89 to '92 Brill worked with Bob Margolin’s band, traveling around the world and recording on Margolin’s second Powerhouse Records album, "Chicago Blues," and on a song with Chicago Blues legend John Brim on "Down In The Alley." In the '90s, Mookie worked with Carey Bell, Hubert Sumlin, and Louisiana Red and with the Extraordinaires and the Rockabilly band, The Belmont Playboys, in North Carolina. He was nominated for the WC Handy award for best bass player in 2005.
PineTop Perkins ~ Born Willie Perkins, in Belzoni, MS, in 1913, Pinetop has been featured on many nationally syndicated news and music shows, and appeared in numerous movie productions, as well as television and radio ads. He has also headlined nearly every major showcase room in North America and most of the major festivals around the world. In 2005 he was also presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammy’s. In 2000 he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. In addition, he continued to win the Blues Music Award for best blues piano every year until 2003 when he was retired from that award, which now bears his name--the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith ~ Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith is best known as the longtime drummer in the Muddy Waters Band.  But before he was a great blues drummer he was a great blues harmonica player. Smith established his own niche within the tradition of the Delta Blues Sound by co-founding the Legendary Blues Band with Pinetop Perkins, Louis Myers, Calvin Jones, and Jerry Portnoy. The group was nominated for several Grammy Awards, recorded four critically acclaimed albums on the Ichiban label, backed up Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf and Junior Wells, toured with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. They played behind Muddy for the soundtrack of the movie "The Last Waltz" and appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers," where they played street musicians backing John Lee Hooker.