Ryan Lee Crosby
Mon, Sep 14
|Nightingales Acoustic Cafe
“Old-school music the old-school way [by] a contemporary torchbearer of a traditional Delta blues style.” (Premier Guitar, July 14, 2025)
Time & Location
Sep 14, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Nightingales Acoustic Cafe, 68 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371, USA
About the event
Ryan Lee Crosby is currently based in Rhode Island, but his musical heart is in Mississippi. He has released numerous albums, toured internationally and is a leading practitioner of the Bentonia School of rural Delta blues, as well as a world music explorer. Smithsonian Magazine has praised his ability to "bring influences from Africa and India to the Bentonia sound."
Crosby's new album "At the Blue Front" (featuring Grammy nominated bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes) offers a haunting, hypnotic meld of Bentonia and Hill Country blues. Recorded on reel-to-reel tape over two afternoons at Holmes’ iconic Mississippi juke joint, the album was produced, recorded and mixed by Crosby, with a selection of original compositions, traditional repertoire and fully improvised songs.
Crosby finds deep inspiration and spiritual refuge in Bentonia, where he has been mentored for six years by Holmes, the man who is widely regarded as the last living master of the style. Blendin…
Tickets
Ryan Lee Crosby
$15.00
+$0.38 ticket service fee
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