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When you come from Bolton, Mississippi (pop. 567), the blues is in your DNA. Indeed, it’s the same place that gave the world Charley Patton, Bo Carter, Sam Chatmon and others who, it could be argued, established the blues as a distinct genre during the early part of the 20th century. The spirit of those artists—along with more recent practitioners such as R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes—is ingrained in the sound of Robert Connely Farr.

Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek are rocking while the Landing Artists gear up for a show at the Botanical Gardens.

Architect by trade, bluesman by talent, Robert Connely Farr is rocking on his new album.

by Steve Newton on February 20th, 2021 at 1:24 PM 1 of 7 2 of 7 When Louisiana slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth played the Rio Theatre in August of 2019, those who arrived early enough to see the opening act got a real treat. It was a local Mississippi transplant named Robert Connely Farr, who'd been blowing people away with his album from the previous year, Dirty South Blues. Steve Newton Turns out Farr had been contacted online a month earlier by the folks at the Canadian Pacific Blues Society who were promoting the show. They wanted their own copy of the album. "That was the thing,...