Gus Cannon

Luther Dickinson celebrated the arrival of May by releasing three albums in a single day, and none of them had anything to do with his band the North Mississippi Allstars, his duo side project with his brother Cody or his role as lead guitarist in the Black Crowes. Read More

The Well is the first full-band recording in Musselwhite's almost 50-year career in which he wrote every track on the album, and it is the most personal and emotionally open cycle of songs he has ever created. Read More

In February 2006, Sankofa Strings, a progressive collective comprised of percussionist Sule Greg Wilson along with multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons and singer Rhiannon Giddens, from the Grammy-Award Winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, were taped in concert for inclusion in the award-winning jug band documentary Chasin' Gus' Ghost , a film which chronicles a worldwide quest to assemble a comprehensive lineage to Gus Cannon, a seminal figure in the history of American music. Read More

In February 2006, Sankofa Strings, a progressive collective comprised of percussionist Sule Greg Wilson along with multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons and singer Rhiannon Giddens, from the Grammy-Award Winning Carolina Chocolate Drops , were taped in concert for inclusion in the award-winning jug band documentary Chasin' Gus' Ghost , a film which chronicles a worldwide quest to assemble a comprehensive lineage to Gus Cannon , a seminal figure in the history of American music. Read More