Steve Cheseborough

This Oregon Art Beat feature shows what Steve Cheseborough is all about: http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/videos/view/67-Steve-Che seborough “On Ham Hocks & Gravy, Steve Cheseborough demonstrates that he’s a hell of a performer as well as a blues authority.” – Blues Revue. There are people who can play the blues, and people who can talk about the blues. Steve Cheseborough does both, masterfully. He brings to life the acoustic country blues and hokum of the 1920s and '30s in the tradition of Blind Boy Fuller, Memphis Minnie, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Bo Carter – by re-creating the music and recounting the lives, legends and lore of the fascinating men and women who created the blues, and the land they came from. Cheseborough learns a song off a scratchy old 78 and re-creates it loud and clear, here and now, preserving the spirit and intricacies of the original while making it his own. He sings from the heart, accompanying himself on antique-style guitars that look as beautiful as they sound. He adds touches of harmonica and percussion to his spellbinding one-man act. Cheseborough is a respected authority on the blues, author-photographer of the acclaimed guidebook Blues Traveling: the Holy Sites of Delta Blues, and a contributor to Living Blues, Acoustic Guitar and other magazines and newspapers. He speaks and performs in the Starz! TV documentary Last of the Mississippi Jukes, also featuring Morgan Freeman and Chris Thomas King, and is host and musical director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s nationally distributed “Blues Breaks.” He holds a master's in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, and has lectured on blues topics at academic conferences. He has taught at Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop and Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, as well as at colleges and festivals. His performances on riverboats and at festivals, museums, schools, nightclubs, jook joints and private events combine stories, history and live performance... -- -- CDBABY LINK for LOVESICK STEVE CHESEBOROUGH: Outstanding Blues --.. -- -- CDBABY LINK for STEVE CHESEBOROUGH: Ham Hocks & Gravy --