For the better part of a decade, Christone Ingram has been a rising prodigy in the Delta blues scene, stunning audiences with his mastery of licks popularised by King and others. As he grew as a player, thanks to lessons at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale and his daily regimen of scouring YouTube for tips, he began to breathe the fire of Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel into those 12-bar blues standards. That’s when things really started to cook for the young man christened “Kingfish” by locals in the Clarksdale, Mississippi scene where he grew up.
In 2019 alone, Ingram toured extensively with Buddy Guy, who helped him record his debut album (2019’s ), made his Austin City Limits debut, and opened for Jason Isbell during a seven-night residency at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Since and and was Vampire Weekend’s hand-picked opener for multiple legs of their 2019-2020 tour.
