“There has been a lot of awareness of the gentrification of the genre… People are craving more music that’s authentic”: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram talks about his new blues label Red Zero

Christone Kingfish Ingram performs during the 2018 Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has announced he’s launching a new label specifically for blues and blues-influenced artists.

Red Zero is named after two of the earliest places Ingram played in Clarksdale, Mississippi – Red’s Lounge and the Ground Zero Blues Club and it’s set to release Ingram’s own third album Hard Road at the end of this week.