“I had seen Slash on TV, but I didn’t know his name. Then I got Guitar Hero III. That’s how I was able to know who he was. Then I started to actually hear him play”: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram talks touring with Slash – and his hunger to learn guitar

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Slash playing guitars onstage.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is only 25, but he’s been a hot name in the blues world for going on a decade. And it’s hardly surprising: He was practically born into the blues.

Hailing from Clarksdale, Mississippi – the supposed site of the crossroads where Robert Johnson traded his soul to the Devil – Ingram, who grew up in a musical family, was surrounded by church gospel music, as well as the playing of local Delta legends, from an early age.