Country blues is intimate, poetic, soul-searching stuff.
Kelly Joe Phelps plays acoustic country blues. Ski p James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Pete Williams. Kelly Joe has spent his entire 37 years in the state of Washington, about as far as you can get from the Mississippi Delta. His was a musical family residing in the small town of Sumner, where Kelly Joe' s earliest musical influences came from neighboring radio stations, and the country and gospel music he learned from his family. He first studied piano at the age of eight, taking up guitar, drums and bass in his teenage years.