Blues on "The Farm:" a conversation the Parchman Band

"Every lyric is a true story." Here's a snippet of the Parchman Band's conversation about Blues on "The Farm" before they took the stage here.

They spoke and sang of sin and addiction, faith and redemption, our past and future... and hope.

Our stage was a scale used to weigh the harvest outside the historic Hopson commissary, where they harvested the first successfully mechanized cotton crop in 1944.

It was our first Blues Country Harvest event, and the band's 5th time performing in public since they've reunited under new leadership.

Scholar Scott Barretta provided context to the work superintendent Marc McClure is doing with Parchman and the community. Shared Experiences USA founder Colleen Buyers led the panel, and musicians Houston, LJ, Charles and Soul Child all shared their stories.

The Sunday afternoon crowd included blues pilgrims from around the world and locals on their way home from church. We swayed as Charles and the band sang of selling his soul in the streets of Memphis -- down the street from where Robert Johnson legendarily sold his soul here at the Crossroads.

Watch the song (3mins into the video) and you'll spot Jimbo Mathus onstage too. He's now working with Music Maker Foundation and the Parchman Community and Culture Foundation to produce the band's next album.

THANKS to all of you joining this conversation, uplifting voices and our spirits together.

Stay tuned for more soon...