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Cast

• Musician, Producer, Engineer: Jimbo Mathus | bio

  Six-time Grammy-nominated collaborator, guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer Jimbo Mathus grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He first caught the public's ear in the 1990's with the hyper-ragtime vaudville act, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, which he co-founded. Since then the artist has released many of his own recordings in a style he describes as 'Mississippi Music'. "I combine the myriad styles of 'deep roots' music in a type of alchemy. Blues, Country, Gospel and Soul all go into the equation equally" reports Mathus. His 2005 CD entitled "Knockdown South", was released on his own label to much critical acclaim and voted number two for Best Of 2005 by Honest Tune Magazine. "Old School Hot Wings" was released in 2006 followed by his most recent offering "Jimmy The Kid"

  Mathus played a key role in Buddy Guy's "Sweet Tea" (2001) and Grammy winning "Blues Singer" (2004) as guitarist and arranger. He also runs The Delta Recording Service, a studio originally based in Clarksdale before relocating to Como Mississippi. It has been sought out by many artists seeking the 'old school' of recording including Elvis Costello, who recorded his Grammy nominated "Monkey to Man" single in Mathus' studio in 2005. Mathus produced two blues CD's that were nominated for WC Handy awards in 2006: Duwane Burnside's "Under Pressure" and Big George Brock's "Club Caravan". Additionally, he contributed vocals on North Mississippi All Stars "Electric Blues Watermelon"

  Mr. Mathus explains his musical expression saying "I break down walls and stereotypes with my music. I confuse people. I use Mississippi Music, which is renegade music at heart, as my inspiration and motivation. I use it as a tool to reach people, to express my own feelings and continue to express those that came before me. I keep the old stories alive while they keep me alive.

• Blues Artist: Percy Strother | bio

  Mississippi Bluesman Percy Strother passed away on May 29, 2005 following a courageous battle with liver cancer, nineteen months after his interview for ONE DAY IN CLARKSDALE. His recordings included "A Good Woman is Hard to Find", self-penned and selected as Best Blues Song of 1992 in Living Blues magazine's Readers' Award category. Subsequent CD's included: "The Highway Is My Home", released on Black Magic (Netherlands) followed by recordings for JSP (England) and Black and Tan (Belgium). Mr. Strother toured the United States and Europe extensively. He will be remembered by his fans as a gritty and soulful blues singer, an expressive and emotional guitar player and outstanding songwriter.

• Blues singer, guitarist, songwriter: K.M. Williams | bio

  K.M. Williams is a modern Texas Country Blues and Boogie artist with heavy Delta Blues influence in the spirit of Blind Willie Johnson, T-Model Ford, John Lee Hooker and R.L. Burnside. He has created 21 CDs and is the subject of three documentaries with the release of ONE DAY IN CLARKSDALE. Mr. Williams has been highly praised in several Blues reviews.

  "K.M. Williams is the real deal with his amplified acoustic music conjuring up memories of Lightning Hopkins' Gold Star 78's and Lil' Son Jackson's Arhoolie Recordings. Williams is an artist with unique musical vision..."
  (Living Blues Magazine 2001).

  "K.M. Williams may have been inspired by the great Blind Lemon Jefferson but his style and his method is all his own"
  (Southwest Blues Magazine 2002).

  His 2004 release "The Minister of Texas Boogie" reached number three on the Dallas-Fort Worth blues radio poll in February 2004 and was the cover story of the May issue of Southwest Blues Magazine.

  A semi-finalist in the International Blues Challenge of 2008, K.M. Williams continues to actively tour the United States and Europe and has opened for such blues and gospel luminaries as Robert Lockwood Jr., Little Milton, The Holmes Brothers and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. Mr. Williams is an ordained minister.

• Blues Percussionist: "Washboard" Jackson | bio

  "Washboard" Jackson is the percussionist for "Trainreck" a two piece blues duo that has developed a global cult following since it's inception in 2002. Jackson plays with a passion and fury that has reviewers describing the Trainreck sound as "Blues in it's most sincere and unpretentious form" generating new and classic sounds their listeners "never thought possible". Originally from the Industrial Punk Rock influenced areas of Detroit and Toledo, "Washboard" Jackson is a hard working family man and talented percussionist who plays drums, washboard and cymbals with taped fingers and thimbles all at the same time.

Crew

• Director: John Gordon Lowen | bio

  John Lowen graduated with high honors from Binghamton University's Department of Cinema in 1985. He was the videographer for Harlem Heritage Promotions, Harlem In Action and Harlem Association for Music and Art from 1983 -1996. Mr Lowen has also worked as a clinical social worker since 1987 using video as a therapeutic tool for creative expression. ONE DAY IN CLARKSDALE is his first release