The well-decorated Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, with only three albums to his name, makes a bold move to control his artistic direction while providing a home for the next generation of artists on his Red Zero Records. The native son of Clarksdale, MS, still in his mid-twenties, is a global star who has quickly moved past ‘the next big thing” to become arguably the foremost blues artist today, blending tradition with contemporary. He is an ‘old soul” who knows where the music came from, with the ability to reshape it and attract a younger audience.
Hard Road, executively co-produced by Kingfish and Ric Whitney, has three producers in three separate studios with different sets of musicians for each. Patrick “Guitarboy” Hayes has…