Henry Berry

Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta on a cotton farm just north of Memphis. Picked and chopped cotton as a kid. I listened mostly to Gospel in a little red country church. Didn't have a radio, haven’t listened to one in 40 years. And didn’t really have a big interest in Blues music till I heard Son House. Somehow I was fortunate enough to buy an album of his, from then on I kinda found what I was kookn' for, or at least on the right track. Found out that it’s hard to find Delta style pickers to listen to, but I had some luck along the way. My playn’ makes the strings rattle a little at times, but that’s just the way I like it, if I can't feel it i can't play it. " W.C. Handy wrote that they are able to "express...personal feeling in a sort of musical soliloquy"and Robert Palmer says that the singer's "involvement becomes both the subject and substance of the work." My wish is you feel what I feel when I play and take you back to another place and time. A time when the Blues was the Blues and not some word that has lost it true meaning. I do not play this great music to try and out play them, can't be done, but to praise them so we don't forget them, and its the music I love so very much. I met Charlie along the way, we write and play a tune or two together as half of the WBBR. Thanks’ to anyone who likes my music and stop by anytime, the lights' always on. Henry