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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/4410
 91837/Blues_at_the_Crossroads_The_Robert_Johnson_Centennial_Concert_Tour_
 \nEvent Date Begin: 2011-02-18\nEvent Date End: 2011-01-19\n\nHow do you t
 hrow a 100th birthday bash for the most influential bluesman that ever liv
 ed?  If you're Big Head Todd and The Monsters\, you gather some of the gre
 atest living blues musicians and record a tribute album\, 100 Years of Rob
 ert Johnson\, and then tour the U.S. with legendary players from Johnson's
  home state of Mississippi to showcase some of the most influential Americ
 an music ever made.   Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centenni
 al Concert Tour\, presented by Subaru of New England\, stops at the Berkle
 e Performance Center on Friday\, February 18\, at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets are $
 50\, $35\, and $25\, and are available at the Performance Center box offic
 e\, or through Ticketmaster.com.  For more information\, call 617 747-2261
  or visit berkleebpc.com.  The Berklee Performance Center is located at 13
 6 Massachusetts Avenue\, Boston.  The venue is wheelchair-accessible.\nJoi
 ning Big Head Todd and The Monsters will be David &ldquo\;Honeyboy&rdquo\;
  Edwards\, Hubert Sumlin\, and Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm.  These
  artists embody more than 75 years of Mississippi blues\, and have either 
 played with Johnson or picked up the roots he left behind.\nDavid 'Honeybo
 y' Edwards was born in 1915 in Shaw\, Mississippi. He is one of the last l
 iving links to Robert Johnson\, and one of the last original acoustic Delt
 a blues players.  Honeyboy's life has been intertwined with almost every m
 ajor blues legend\, including Charlie Patton\, Big Joe Williams\, Sonny Bo
 y Williamson\, Sunnyland Slim\, Lightnin' Hopkins\, Little Walter\, Magic 
 Sam\, and Muddy Waters.  Honeyboy made his first recordings in 1942 for Al
 an Lomax.  He accepted his first Grammy Award in 2008 when his album Last 
 of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas won for Best Tradi
 tional Blues Album\, and in 2010\, he took home a Lifetime Achievement Gra
 mmy Award.\nHubert Sumlin was born in Greenwood\, Mississippi\, in 1931.  
 He was the guitar player in Howlin' Wolf's band for more than 20 years.  I
 t 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 st
 ruck awe in a generation of classic rock guitarists.  Eric Clapton\, Keith
  Richards\, Jimmy Page\, Jimi Hendrix\, and Stevie Ray Vaughan all name hi
 m as a prime inspiration.  Rolling Stone and Mojo magazines list him among
  the most influential guitarists of all time.  Sumlin is an inductee in th
 e Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.  He most recent release is About Them Sho
 es\, on Tone-Cool Records.\nFormed in Clarksdale\, Mississippi\, in 2006\,
  the minimalist duo of Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm hit hard with a
  powerful fusion of Delta and North Mississippi Hill County blues and funk
 \, rock\, and Americana music.  Burnside 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.  Malcolm\, sk
 illed on guitar\, bass\, and drums and possessed with a deep soulful voice
 \, is a first-call session player\, especially to recreate older blues sou
 nds the recall backwoods churches\, rural dance halls\, or fife and drum b
 ands.  He has played with many of Mississippi's best blues artists\, such 
 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 Best 
 New Artist Debut.   \nThe tour and tribute album are the brainstorm of Tod
 d Park Mohr\, who along with Rob Squires\, Brian Nevin\, and Jeremy Lawton
  make-up Big Head Todd and The Monsters\, whose hits &ldquo\;Bittersweet&r
 dquo\; and &ldquo\;Broken Hearted Stranger&rdquo\; were modern rock staple
 s during the early '90s.  100 Years of Robert Johnson was recorded at the 
 legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis\, and produced by Grammy Award-winning
  blues producer Chris Goldsmith.  The album is Big Head Todd's inspired ta
 ke on Johnson's best known tunes with help from Charlie Musselwhite\, B.B.
  King\, and Ruthie Foster\, as well as Edwards\, Sumlin\, Burnside\, and M
 alcolm. \nRobert Johnson's story is the stuff of myth and legend. Born in 
 Hazlehurst\, Mississippi\, in 1911\, Johnson recorded only 29 songs\, all 
 during the years 1936 and '37.  His unique guitar style and haunting vocal
  phrasing\, and the evocative\, often mysterious nature of his lyrics\, ma
 de him a popular artist during his short time in the spotlight\, but an ev
 en great legend since his mysterious death at 27 in 1938\, after a gig wit
 h Honeyboy Edwards.\n\nStart time: 7:30PM
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