Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 1, 2017

Here it is again this year, Waterfront Blues Festival. I'm not going to be recording much this year. I'm just to busy with family and retirement. The radio station is still cutting in at weird time to announce all the station call numbers. To me it's an annoyance. I'll try to edit these out if possible.

Cheers to all, twofthrs

The 18-year-old from Friar�s Point, Mississippi is already a phenom in the blues guitar world. In the past three years CHRISTONE has played the Whitehouse for Michelle and Barak Obama; completed several tours of Europe which included major Parisian theatres; appeared on the Rachel Ray and Steve Harvey TV shows; debuted at a number of prestigious festivals and venues across the South and East; and has seen one video clip of his mind-blowing guitar chops go viral�boasting, at last count, some 250,000 shares on facebook and nearly 10 million views on youtube.

Though still in his teens, KINGFISH�S success is hardly the �overnight� variety. Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1999, to Princess Pride Ingram and Christopher Ingram, Kingfish was exposed to the rich Gospel music emanating from his family�s church, as well as the blues he heard performed by such acclaimed Delta bluesmen as Big Jack Johnson and Michael Burks. A cousin to legendary Country music singer, Charlie Pride, Kingfish was a natural sponge for all these musical influences.

At age 5, he began to play the drums, three years later, took up the bass, and by 11, taking lessons at Clarksdale�s Delta Blues Museum with North Mississippi bluesman Bill �Howl-N-Madd� Perry, the guitar. Kingfish started booking gigs in the Delta by the time he was in 7th grade, and quickly developed a local following, as well as a growing rep among the world-renowned blues musicians who visited the Delta.

�There was no place I probably wouldn�t be gigging,� he said, �I got hooked. This is what I am going to be playing for the rest of my life.�

As a guitarist CHRISTONE cites influences that extend across the full spectrum of the blues, ranging from the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins to the electric blues of B.B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Lefty Dizz, Lucky Peterson, Little Jimmy King and Buddy Guy; to the blues rock of Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Duane Allman, Jonny Lang, Humble Pie�s Steve Marriott, and Prince. He can perfectly reproduce the riffs of his mentors, but also, and more surprisingly for such a young player, has begun to forge a sophisticated, deeply soulful sound of his own.

Set List
01 Unknown (cut in)
02 Unknown
03 Hey Baby
04 Ain't That Nice
05 The Thrill is Gone
06 Unknown