“I went there in winter and saw Lightnin’ Malcolm with Kimbrough’s grandson, playing hip hop drums against this grinding, excessive guitar thing. It was really good, fire baskets blazing and the stars over the Mississippi. Suddenly I thought wow, how did I get here?” - Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin): How I got my 'big voice’ out again

Cutting Edge Bluesman LIGHTNIN MALCOLM, a charismatic and energetic guitarslinger with a deep soulful voice, has taken his irresistable Dance grooves from Juke Joint teen years as a One Man Band to World stages with mainstream artists such as Robert Plant, Jimmy Buffett, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, The Black Keys, Widespread Panic, Big Head Todd, North Mississippi Allstars, Lucero, and Gary Clark Jr.

The Mississippi based Multi-instrumentalist combines the Tribal Rhythms and raw electrifying power of the Hill Country Blues with melodic songwriting wisdom of heroes Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. MALCOLM fuses elements of Funk, Soul, Rock, Reggae, Hip Hop, West African World Beat, Gospel and Country to create an Authentic Melodic Signature sound in modern day World Roots Music.

Based out of Jackson MS these Rock & Rollers bring their psychedelic blues rock outfit April 24 to Martin’s Downtown.

The Grateful Dead continue to have one of the most rabid and loyal followings of any band in history, and deservedly so: They wrote great songs, and they were excellent musicians and terrific improvisers who never played a tune the same way twice. The Stolen Faces deftly capture the spirit of the Dead, covering a wide variety of songs from the band’s expansive catalog and delivering them with the sort of energy and spontaneity that might have you thinking you’re standing in the Fillmore West in 1971. Led by bassist Christian Grizzard, the group features guitarist Jack Silverman, drummer Matt Martin, and a rotating cast of some of Nashville’s top session and touring musicians.

"Stinging blues guitar and potent, original songs herald the emergence of a major new talent." --USA Today

"Jarekus Singleton is an exciting new young blues guitarist with melody, hooks, swagger and a strong, original voice. His lyrics are modern, personal, acutely poetic and deeply mature." --Washington Post

"Jarekus Singleton is destined to be the next big name in the blues world." --Blues & Rhythm Magazine (UK)

"High-energy, rock-tinged and tough…a winning blend of modern-day blues and emotionally intense soul with melodic, hot-toned lead guitar, funk-seasoned rhythms and hip-hop flavored lyrics. Singleton creates unpredictable and challenging music that sounds both firmly rooted in blues tradition and fearlessly dedicated to breaking boundaries and blazing new paths."  --Living Blues 

At just 30 years old, Jarekus Singleton is a musical trailblazer with a bold vision for the future of the blues. Springing from the same Mississippi soil as Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Singleton’s cutting-edge sound—equally rooted in rap, rock and blues traditions—is all his own. He melds hip-hop wordplay, rock energy and R&B grooves with contemporary and traditional blues, turning audiences of all ages into devoted fans. With his untamed guitar licks and strong, soulful voice effortlessly moving from ferocious and funky to slow and steamy to smoking hot, Singleton is a fresh, electrifying bluesman bursting at the seams with talent.

Singleton's Alligator debut, Refuse To Lose, features a scintillating guitar attack and lyrically startling original songs all sung with a natural storyteller’s voice. Produced by Singleton along with Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer and recorded at PM Music in Memphis, the album is an impossible-to-ignore first step onto the world stage. With songs telling real life, streetwise (sometimes funny) stories brimming with surprising images, pop culture references, infectious rhythms and unexpected musical twists, Refuse To Lose unleashes a new wave of blues for a new generation of fans.

Jarekus Singleton has been tearing up clubs and festivals across the South, and has performed twice at the world-renowned Chicago Blues Festival. He has been featured at South Carolina's Lowcountry Blues Festival and Festival of Discovery as well as many other festivals in the South and clubs throughout Mississippi. With the addition of high-visibility performances including Springing The Blues Festival, Biscuits & Blues in San Francisco, The North Atlantic Blues Festival, The PA Blues Festival, The Cincinnati Blues Festival, and The Festival International du Blues de Mont-Tremblant, Singleton is on the cusp of international stardom.

Martin's Crawfish Boil May 1

Gates 12 pm | Music 1 pm

The Vamps

Blackwater Brass

Southern Komfort Brass Band

After Show : The Jarekus Singleton Band

Crawfish by Sal & Phils

Nikki Glaspie - The Nth Power https://ragman.org/nikki-glaspie

Nigel Hall - Lettuce www.nigelhalloffical.com 

Kat Dyson - Prince, Cindy Lauper http://www.katdyson.com/who.html

Matt Lapham - Roosevelt Collier Trio  https://mattlapham.com/about/ 

Nikki Glaspie- www.nikkiglaspie.com

Nikki Glaspie is among the premier drummers in music today. As a founding member of The Nth Power she's blazing a path of light, and rolling waves of love in her wake. A student of J Dilla, James Brown, Led Zepplin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gospel traditions and all points between, Nikki Glaspie has toured the world as the drummer of Beyonce's backing band SUGA MAMA, trotting the globe behind the likes of Maceo Parker, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Martin Luther, and more. Glaspie studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, and credits Professor Angelamia Bachemin as her single greatest teacher/influence. For the better part of two decades, Nikki has been in-demand, with a who's who of the jazz/funk scene. Nikki Glaspie is already a living legend, well before her fortieth birthday. Remarkably, it feels as though she has merely just begun!

Nigel Hall:

 Currently with Lettuce, soul provider Nigel Hall is an artist who needs no introduction. Throughout his career, he’s built a mighty foundation of funk, onstage and in the studio, proving himself to be a true student of the music. His unique sound, built upon pages torn out of the golden-ages of R&B, funk and soul, have made him the musician he is today; an accomplished vocalist, keyboardist, studio musician, and member of the GRAMMY-nominated funk-jazz-soul-hip-hop-psychedelic-jam- experimental titans Lettuce. Legions of fans are already well in the know about Hall’s copious keyboard chops and powerful vocal style. Nigel Hall puts his skills to good use, carving out a creative space to call his own with his second album Spiritual, set to release May 14th, 2021 on Regime Music Group. With this release, Nigel Hall is ready to follow his musical spirit into uncharted territory.



Kat Dyson:
Southern-born guitarist/vocalist Kat Dyson relocated to Los Angeles from Montreal via Minneapolis where she was a featured guitarist & vocalist with Prince as a member of the New Power Generation. Her contributions to this musical alliance can be heard on the following recordings: Emancipation, The Truth and Newpowersoul.

Along the way,she has performed with renowned artists including Cyndi Lauper,Natalie Cole,Ivan Neville,Donny Osmond,rap artist T.I.,Seal,Sheila E and C.O.E.D.,Joi,George Clinton and the P-Funk AllStars, MusiqueSoulchild,Phoebe Snow,Res,The Winans,Mary Mary,Yolanda Adams,Big Mamma Thornton, Ben E. King,Bo Diddley, Odetta,Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir,Celine Dion, Roch Voisine and many others.

Her studio work includes sessions for such artists as Keb Mo',Ziggy Marley,Sheila E.,Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Mick Jagger [Alfie soundtrack], Jeff Healey, Jamaican producers Sly and Robbie, Cat Cooer of Third World and Bernie Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic). Before joining forces with Prince, Ms. Dyson is a contributing guitarist and vocalist on the multi-platinum Cyndi Lauper greatest hits album, "12 Deadly Cyns",along with 'Sisters of Avalon'"At Last" and "The Body Acoustic.She continues to perform with Ms. Lauper. 

Matt Lapham:

At age 15, Matt picked up a bass and hasn’t stopped playing since. He’s shared a stage with Nikki Glaspie, The Lee Boys, Victor Wooten, Doug Wimbish, George Porter Jr., Soulive, and Oteil and Kofi Burbridge to name just a few! Regularly you can see him with RC3 (with Roosevelt Collier & Anthony Cole); and his other projects including Heej (with Bobby Lee Rogers and Anthony Cole), Children of the Klorn, The New Etruscans, Con Leche, Brown Note, Absinthe Trio, and Shak Nasti; around Florida and beyond.

Jesse Cotton Stone weaves together the stylistic threads of definitive regional traditions of Blues Music ranging from North Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Delta Blues, and Cotton Patch Soul Blues to the Urban Chicago Blues Roots of R&B, Soul, Funk, and Psychedelic Rock & Roll, bringing listeners through the doors of a Heart-Wrenching Boutique of Vintage-Toned American Blues Music with the relentless showmanship of a True Entertainer.

He is a Colorado-Born,  American Highway-Raised, Blues Man. A 3rd Generation "Carny", he spent the earliest of his years on the Carnival circuit training as a traveling entertainer from his parents and grandfather, who was a balloon clown. 

In 1994, at the age of 11 he began teaching  himself to play blues guitar by ear.

"Though Colorado born, my blues influence was rooted on the banks of the Missouri  River, where my Fathers side of our family had migrated  from Texas during the Great Depression.    We lived many years there throughout my upbringing and spent most summers going to blues clubs, barbecues,juke joints,  blues festivals, and National Gospel Choir competitions, throughout the midwest while on the road with the carnival circuit." 

While working on the Midwestern carnival circuit with his father, Jesse heard the music of Jimi Hendrix and learned of the influence Blues Music had on his hero. This Experience inspired him to sell his childhood Matchbox Car collection for money to purchase his first electric guitar.

Jesse  began cutting his teeth on the live stage playing blues jams and sitting in with anyone who would let him throughout the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions.

In formative years he had the honor of  learning from and sharing greenrooms, jam sessions and  concert stages with the likes of  B.B. King, Lonnie Brooks, Magic Slim, Honeyboy Edwards, Russell Jackson, Kim Simmons, Jerry Ricks, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, John Cephas, Phil Wiggins, Link Wray, John Jackson, Koko Taylor, Derek Trucks, and the Junior Wells Blues Band,  to name a few.

Before forming the Jesse Cotton Stone Band, at the age of 14, he performed at  Kansas City's Grand Emporium, the  Kansas City Spirit Festival, Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, and the Memorial Benefit Concert for the late Junior Wells held at Chicago's House of Blues in '98. 

 The Jesse Cotton Stone Band played 5 nights a week headlining clubs, theaters, festivals, and motorcycle rallies all over the Rocky Mountains and the Midwest from '98 to 2001.

After years of focusing primarily on blues and acid rock, Jesse began studying new styles of music and branching out beyond his roots.

"I had a friend named Dug Grow who would speak often about  the amazing master musicians he'd made records with who would later migrate to my home town for years to come.  Upon their arrival  I began jamming, recording,  and studying under Poly-Free Jazz Guitarist, Barry Wedgle, and Fusion Bassist,  Kim Stone, on a constant basis. This was the beginning of my interest in Jazz and World Music studies. 

 I learned about a more universal application to what I had already been exposed to by the Blues Culture.

This is what lead me to a path of enriching my own musicology through disciplinary studies."

After formal Theory, Harmony, and Ear training in College, Jesse Traveled the World for about a decade, studying different musical traditions including the Classical Music of Northern India under one of the greatest musicians of all time, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

"I realized that, in the 1960s, an evolutionary process of musical expression had begun in America and was continuing through the expansion of modern music with reference to the most traditional form of American music - the Blues."

In 2013, Jesse started his own multi-faceted record label and production company, Gypsy Magik Productions,  in his hometown of Manitou Springs, CO., where he currently resides and actively continues writing, developing and producing  a catalogue of new original music by  the Jesse Cotton Stone Band, collaborative  projects, a Blues Remix series, and his   post-modern Electro-Industrial Blues Masterpiece, ALGODON  - A Multi-Sensory Concept Project  based on the musicological evolution  of Jesse's influences. 

In the Summer of 2015, Jesse visited Clarksdale, MS.-MS.-Birthplace of American Blues Music - for the first time during production of the "Blue Dream Documentary" directed by Charlie Smith of AWEN Productions, which entails the premise of a retrogressive chronological history of the Blues, paralleled with Jesse's own  journey of musical Evolution.       

Since that experience, Jesse has made the Southern U.S. a second home and has toured from Colorado to the Bayous of Southern Louisiana several times.

His "Juke Spree" tours have included performances at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, AR., the Juke Joint Festival and Deep Blues Festival in Clarksdale, MS., not to mention the historic Red's Lounge in Clarksdale, MS. and Teddy's Juke Joint in Zachary, LA.

Along the way he has jammed with, learned from, and shared stages with the likes of Cedric Burnside, Tab Benoit, R.L. Boyce, Deak Harp, Mark "Mule Man" Massey, Watermelon Slim, Robert Kimbrough Sr., Lightning Malcolm, Cameron Kimbrough, David Kimbrough,Trenton Ayers, Bill "Howlin' Madd" Perry, and Mickey Rogers.

All of which, have deeply impacted and influenced Jesse in his most current musical direction featured on his debut self-release "Fires & Floods" and follow-up live in the studio record, "...cupcakes and go f#ck yourself". 

The Sal-Tines do instrumental music to keep you listening AND moving with a funky mashup-driven jam band with a pop sensibility and a fusion jones.

The Holly Rogers are a southern blend of rock, soul, and alternative music. The three South Mississippi natives bring a tangible, unbridled energy to every show. The band effortlessly drifts between styles, a belting ballad one second, an explosion of gritty rock and roll the next. 

A familiar sound with fresh faces, this is a band you don’t want to miss. 

Jason Anderson aka DJ URI was born in Tampa,FL but moved to Jackson,MS at the age of 3 years old. His love for music has always been a big thing in his life. He was in several different groups as a singer during his youth. In the late 90's he discovered the underground dance scene and instantly fell in love.

He began to pursue his love for all things dance and music as a DJ. He started off on the south side of Jackson in a two bedroom apartment playing any little house party or small gig he could get his hands on. Then in early 2000 he caught the eye of a well known promoter/DJ named Tam Ragab who went by the name DJ TAM. Tam was the owner of the infamous One Nation United Crew who was known for putting on the best shows that Jackson had ever seen. Not only was One Nation United a top notch production company, but they also had some of the most elite DJ's in the southeast region of the USA.

DJ URI ended up signing with the One Nation United crew and began working on his first mix-tape with Tam as the producer and engineer on his album. DJ URI went on from there to gain huge success locally as well as regionally. He ended up DJ'ing with some of the best names in EDM music with the likes of Baby Anne, Dj Icey, Dj Dan, D Fuse, Kid Vicious, Tiesto just to name a few. He ended up locking down a promotional gig with Nettwerk America and then was able to take his act nationwide.

He then in late 2005 started his record company Arkangel Records and now uses that label to front all his remixes,mash-ups and original music. He has since opened his own private studio, Beat Nation Studio where he does full production and records DJ mixes. Here it is almost 20 years later and he is still doing his thing. He is very focused on providing his fans fun, yet very technical mixes and an exceptional club experience. He loves and respects his fans, and he is positive he wouldn't be where he is today without all of the support of his family friends and die hard fans who got him there. So needless to say, DJ URI is here to stay with no end in sight. So stay tuned in for all the latest mixes and remixes that he is sure to produce.

THE RED NOT CHILI PEPPERS pay tribute to the ultimate funk rock quartet – a band who has transcended three decades of chart-topping success as well as developed one of the largest die-hard followings in the world. Come be reminded of the hits and high energy performances that brought the Chili Pepper’s international acclaim. Having performed at many of the country’s most prestigious concert halls as well as every major tribute festival, the Red Not’s sincere devotion to that classic Chili Pepper sound is filling venues and rocking people’s socks off around the US and abroad. With the ability to span over three decades of hits and hundreds of songs, every show provides a unique and high energy live music experience.

Formed in 2009, the Red NOT Chili Peppers quickly rose to be the Nation's most active Chili Pepper tribute as well as spanning the globe through Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. With world-class musicians on the roster, the Red Not's have stopped at nothing to develop the most accurate re-creation of that distinctive alternative funk rock sound pioneered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers; mix in a truly explosive performance and you have all the ingredients for the raging party that everyone expects from a Chili Pepper show.