{"id":1371,"date":"2024-10-17T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2024-10-17T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:34:10","slug":"christone-kingfish-ingram-hailed-best-blues-guitar-faced-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Christone \u2018Kingfish\u2019 Ingram has been hailed as the best in blues guitar \u2013 but Faced with a Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His first album,\u00a0Kingfish<\/em>, rocketed to the top of Billboard\u2019s Blues Chart. The second album, dubbed\u00a0662<\/em>, the area code of Mississippi\u2019s sultry delta, earned him a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. With the third\u00a0\u2013 a live album recorded in London\u00a0\u2013 came the honor of Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year. As passionate and searing as he is in the studio, NPR declared \u201cHe\u2019s even scarier live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christone \u201cKingfish\u201d Ingram is only 25. And while he has been performing much of his life, the pace of success is something of a surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational attention\u00a0\u2013 I always felt like it would come in my 30s,\u201d Ingram says with a soft chuckle. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ingram grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was a youth infused with gospel, but also one that simmered with the sound of Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters and regular visits to the Delta Blues Museum. For Ingram, gospel and blues are musical salves, and blues is the root of modern storytelling genres.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all sacred,\u201d he says. But there\u2019s a depth and a reach to blues that seeps through the decades, keeping it alive and relevant. \u201cBlues is the most relatable genre of music. It\u2019s dealing with life. Everyone deals with hardships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ingram was 20 when he released\u00a0Kingfish<\/em>\u00a0in 2019. That album, the two that followed (Live in London<\/em>\u00a0came out in 2023), as well as tours and appearances, including at Monterey Jazz Festival, have left audiences gasping.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an authority in his playing, touched by the blues gods, but also informed by Prince, Jimi Hendrix and others, as well as his own relationship with life. His guitar can drip with sweltering heat, weep with unshakable sorrow or shout back at the difficulties of the world. Ingram has been labeled \u201ca generational talent\u201d by\u00a0Washington Post Magazine<\/em>. Meanwhile\u00a0Guitar World<\/em>\u00a0noted\u00a0\u2013 without hesitation\u00a0\u2013 that he is the \u201cmost exciting blues guitarist in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Ingram sees himself improving with each album, with each different experience on the road. Perhaps that\u2019s why NPR viewed his talent as frightening. But there has always been a healing capacity in music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot of blues, a lot of funk,\u201d he says of his show in Carmel. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His first album,\u00a0Kingfish, rocketed to the top of Billboard\u2019s Blues Chart. The second album, dubbed\u00a0662, the area code of Mississippi\u2019s sultry delta, earned him a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. With the third\u00a0\u2013 a live album recorded in London\u00a0\u2013 came the honor of Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year. 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