Jazz Articles about Ryan Lee Crosby

Ryan Lee Crosby, Kent Burnside and Garry Burnside: Blues As A Way Of Life

by Doug Collette
August 16, 2025

The eternal appeal of the blues lies in the attraction it holds to successive generations of musicians and music lovers. And such connections are not necessarily grounded in blood relations, as is the case with Kent and Garry Burnside, but also in the bonds of mentorship as with Ryan Lee Crosby: while there are more than a few breeding grounds for genre seeds, Mississippi's Hill Country and beyond may be the most fertile. Promising durability in these efforts and in ...