Deep Roots: Live Downtown! Keith Johnson & the Big Muddy Band w/special guest Abee Hudson

Keith Johnson, “Prince of the Delta Blues,” is in the process of carrying on and upholding a family legacy in the entertainment industry as he is the great nephew of blues icon, Muddy Waters.  He is also the grandson of Texcellar Fields, blues singer from the early fifties and sixties who once has an opportunity to sign with Chess Records back in the day.  Keith was born in Glen Allen, Mississippi… a small town in the heartland of the Mississippi Delta.  He is a graduate of Riverside High School and Delta State University, where he received a BA degree in Entertainment Industry Studies with a concentration in Audio Engineering and an MBA in Human Resources. Keith was a featured performer at the 2015 International Conference on the Blues where he performed with GRAMMY Award winner, Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Keith is an accomplished blues musician and winner of the 2016, 2018, and 2019 local International Blues Challenge Competition sponsored by the Vicksburg Blues Society and the Mississippi Delta Blues Society. He has shared the stage with GRAMMY winner Bobby Rush and has performed at the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, King Biscuit Festival, the Great Delta Bear Affair, and toured in Brazil at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival. Keith has released one album entitled Come to Mississippi, and a Christmas EP entitled Sounds like Christmas. Keith currently has one single entitled “Creeping and Walking”.

Joining Keith for the Deep Roots: Live Downtown! show will be the “Princess of the Delta Blues,” Abee Hudson.