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Founded in 2002 as the world’s original I couldn’t believe I’d seen three of my
chartered blues cruise. The Legendary now favorite harp players in one night. I made
sails twice a year. Many onboard have my way past the smaller stages where a
been onboard twenty or more times. I told young vocalist was singing his heart out,
the woman I was sitting with that not ev‐ dancing on stage. The audience screamed.
eryone in New York City is passionate I asked the woman next to me who it was.
about the blues. “Hey,” she said, “if you like Dylan Triplett, a 22-year-old blues prodigy,
the Rolling Stones, you gotta love the winner of the Best Emerging Artist at the
blues!” Blues Music Awards. “Hey!” she said, “I
After dinner, I went to listen to virtu‐ know you from Facebook. I’m Amy Brat.” I
oso harp player Charlie Musselwhite, who remembered her -- she promotes musi‐
was explaining how he ended up in Martin cians, and some were on this cruise. Amy
Scorsese’s movie, Killers of the Flower suggested I check out other new faces like
Moon. Musselwhite’s grandfather had shot award-winning 21-year-old singer/song‐
the famous train robber, Al Spencer, and writer/guitarist, Matthias Lattin. How could
got to keep the shotgun. Now, both Mussel‐ there be so much young talent in a musical
white and his grandfather’s gun play a part tradition that goes back to around 1890?
in the movie. Musselwhite picked up a harp And there were other players under 25,
and played the way only he can – with pure all award winners: Whitney Shay, Christone
passion and soul on every note. I was in “Kingfish” Ingram, D.K. Harrell and more.
blues heaven. During a presentation, “Newcomers Explor‐
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