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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centenn
 ial Concert Tour\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441091
 827/Blues_at_the_Crossroads_The_Robert_Johnson_Centennial_Concert_Tour\nEv
 ent Date Begin: 2011-02-18\nEvent Date End: 2011-02-18\n\nHow do you throw
  a 100th birthday bash for the most influential bluesman that ever lived? 
  If you're Big Head Todd and The Monsters\, you gather some of the greates
 t living blues musicians and record a tribute album\, 100 Years of Robert 
 Johnson\, and then tour the U.S. with legendary players from Johnson's hom
 e state of Mississippi to showcase some of the most influential American m
 usic ever made.\nBlues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centennial Co
 ncert Tour\, presented by Subaru of New England\, stops at the Berklee Per
 formance Center on Friday\, February 18\, at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets are $50\, 
 $35\, and $25\, and are available at the Performance Center box office\, o
 r through Ticketmaster.com.  For more information\, call 617 747-2261 or v
 isit berkleebpc.com.  The Berklee Performance Center is located at 136 Mas
 sachusetts Avenue\, Boston.  The venue is wheelchair-accessible.\nJoining 
 Big Head Todd and The Monsters will be David &ldquo\;Honeyboy&rdquo\; Edwa
 rds\, Hubert Sumlin\, and Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm.  These arti
 sts embody more than 75 years of Mississippi blues\, and have either playe
 d with Johnson or picked up the roots he left behind.    \nDavid 'Honeyboy
 ' Edwards was born in 1915 in Shaw\, Mississippi. He is one of the last li
 ving links to Robert Johnson\, and one of the last original acoustic Delta
  blues players.  Honeyboy's life has been intertwined with almost every ma
 jor blues legend\, including Charlie Patton\, Big Joe Williams\, Sonny Boy
  Williamson\, Sunnyland Slim\, Lightnin' Hopkins\, Little Walter\, Magic S
 am\, and Muddy Waters.  Honeyboy made his first recordings in 1942 for Ala
 n Lomax.  He accepted his first Grammy Award in 2008 when his album Last o
 f the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas won for Best Tradit
 ional Blues Album\, and in 2010\, he took home a Lifetime Achievement Gram
 my Award.    Hubert Sumlin was born in Greenwood\, Mississippi\, in 1931. 
  He was the guitar player in Howlin' Wolf's band for more than 20 years.  
 It was with Wolf\, whom Sumlin first saw as a 10 year old boy in the Delta
 \, that he defined a primitive\, raw\, emotive electric blues sound that s
 truck awe in a generation of classic rock guitarists.  Eric Clapton\, Keit
 h Richards\, Jimmy Page\, Jimi Hendrix\, and Stevie Ray Vaughan all name h
 im as a prime inspiration.  Rolling Stone and Mojo magazines list him amon
 g the most influential guitarists of all time.  Sumlin is an inductee in t
 he Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.  He most recent release is About Them Sh
 oes\, on Tone-Cool Records.    Formed in Clarksdale\, Mississippi\, in 200
 6\, the minimalist duo of Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm hit hard wit
 h a powerful fusion of Delta and North Mississippi Hill County blues and f
 unk\, rock\, and Americana music. \nBurnside is the grandson of legendary 
 R.L. Burnside\, and son of drummer Calvin Jackson.  He is the recipient of
  the Blues Foundation's 2010 Blues Music Award for best drummer.\nMalcolm\
 , skilled on guitar\, bass\, and drums and possessed with a deep soulful v
 oice\, is a first-call session player\, especially to recreate older blues
  sounds the recall backwoods churches\, rural dance halls\, or fife and dr
 um bands.  He has played with many of Mississippi's best blues artists\, s
 uch as T Model Ford\, Junior Kimbrough\, Big Jack Johnson\, among others. 
  The duo's CD\, 2 Man Wrecking Crew\, won the 2009 Blues Music Award for B
 est New Artist Debut.   The tour and tribute album are the brainstorm of T
 odd Park Mohr\, who along with Rob Squires\, Brian Nevin\, and Jeremy Lawt
 on make-up Big Head Todd and The Monsters\, whose hits &ldquo\;Bittersweet
 &rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Broken Hearted Stranger&rdquo\; were modern rock stap
 les during the early '90s.  100 Years of Robert Johnson was recorded at th
 e legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis\, and produced by Grammy Award-winni
 ng blues producer Chris Goldsmith.  The album is Big Head Todd's inspired 
 take on Johnson's best known tunes with help from Charlie Musselwhite\, B.
 B. King\, and Ruthie Foster\, as well as Edwards\, Sumlin\, Burnside\, and
  Malcolm. \nRobert Johnson's story is the stuff of myth and legend. Born i
 n Hazlehurst\, Mississippi\, in 1911\, Johnson recorded only 29 songs\, al
 l during the years 1936 and '37.  His unique guitar style and haunting voc
 al phrasing\, and the evocative\, often mysterious nature of his lyrics\, 
 made him a popular artist during his short time in the spotlight\, but an 
 even great legend since his mysterious death at 27 in 1938\, after a gig w
 ith Honeyboy Edwards.\n\nStart time: 7:30 PM
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