Kingfish by Christone Kingfish Ingram

Kingfish, the first album from Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, came out on Alligator on May 17, 2019, and it's the sound of a kid from Clarksdale, Mississippi, who'd already made a name for himself as a teenager, stepping up to prove the hype was real. Tom Hambridge produced it, and the sessions at Ocean Way Recording keep the setting classic and the spotlight where it belongs: on Ingram's stinging, deep-bent guitar and a voice that sounds decades older than the man singing.

This is traditional blues played with a young man's fire rather than a museum curator's care, and "Outside Of This Town" shows how it rolls. The Grammys agreed it was the real deal, nominating it for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2020 ceremony.

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