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Ryan Lee Crosby
By his early teens, Crosby had found inspiration in great blues recordings from the likes of John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed and Sonny Boy Williamson II. As he developed into a professional musician and a noted guitar instructor, a wide range of interests evolved, including punk rock and post-punk, African music, Indian classical music, songwriting, film scoring and various vital strains of the blues. Among those was the trance-inducing Hill Country blues of North Mississippi.
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Ryan Lee Crosby, Kent Burnside and Garry Burnside: Blues As A Way Of Life
by Doug Collette
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 ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Ryan Lee Crosby
Instrument: Guitar, 12-string
