Ninety-two years (!) young, Bobby Rush is a three-time Grammy winner, Blues Hall of Famer, six-time Grammy nominee, and 18-time Blues Music Award winner, Eddie Murphy co-star and author of a bestselling autobiography, I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya.

Do not try this at home.

Now you can add Oscar winner: Bobby appears in the film and soundtrack for Sinners, the 2026 Oscar winner for Best Score.

During this year’s Oscar ceremony in March, Bobby joined many of the musicians from the score (Kingfish, among others) in performing, “I Lied to You.”

Bobby’s recent albums include Young Fashioned Ways with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Also look for his 2024 Record Day single with the Blind Boys of Alabama and Don Flemons, 99 and 1/2 Won’t Do.

Ralph Eubanks is the author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land (Beacon Press).

The Mississippi Delta is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol’ boy politics and white-washed histories lies the Delta’s true story.

Eubanks delivers a powerful and insightful examination of how racism and economic instability have shaped life in the Mississippi Delta.

“Eubanks speaks truth to power about an iconic and ill-understood American landscape and proves beyond question that as the Mississippi Delta goes, so goes our republic.” — Richard Ford

“Ralph Eubanks nimbly, and profoundly, rides the voices of the folks making the Delta.” – Kiese Laymon

Ralph Eubanks is a faculty fellow and writer in residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

He is the author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, as well as two other works of nonfiction, Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road.

Ralph’s work has garnered numerous honors including a Guggenheim fellowship, a 2021-2022 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowship, and a 2023 Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for excellence in literature and in recognition of Ralph’s role as a cultural ambassador for the state of Mississippi.

Twurt (“The World’s most Unique Representation of Truth”) Chamberlain is a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Lexington, Mississippi. He is a soulful vocalist and guitarist whose music is a fusion of blues, rock and hip-hop focusing on uplifting, positive lyrics.

His latest album is Country Punk Black.