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The Bullfrog Blues Club is proud to welcome Mississippi MacDonald back to Southsea on Thursday March 2nd, 2023. Doors at 8pm, music from 8.30pm Advance tickets at £9.00 available from https://webplus.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/tickets/ or more on the door. More information about Mississippi MacDonald from his website : www.mississippimacdonald.com "It's modern, it's not musical archaeology," says London-based soul-blues stylist Mississippi MacDonald of his music. "It celebrates a fantastic tradition. It's soul-blues, and you've got to put your best into it." MacDonald knows that tradition. He's been to Al Green's church and heard him preach. He's been to Willie Mitchell's Royal Studios in Memphis, where the great records on the Hi Label were recorded. He's seen Jerry Lee Lewis kick over his piano stool. He's met B.B. King and Pinetop Perkins, Otis Clay and Sam Moore. Big Joe Turner told him to listen to Albert King. In 2008, he was a prime mover in finally getting a stone for the previously unmarked grave of soul legend O.V. Wright. He's been nominated three times in the British Blues Awards. He's hit the top spot in the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association's charts. He's had the support of Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2. He's had the thumbs-up from Blues Magazine in The Netherlands, and from the Washington State Blues Society. MacDonald has arrived at the centre of a potent musical crossroads - where blues and soul meet. Not only is his thinking along the lines of The Black Keys, his whole ethos is simpatico with the roster of Jack White's Third Man label - a thrilling present symbiotically drawing from the past. "I just do it because I love it," he says. And it's that love which courses through Mississippi MacDonald. Pure expression. It's what makes Mississippi MacDonald irresistible.