Ian Brown - Home Is Where The Heart Is

Talking to artists about how they had adjusted to the pandemic yielded information that normally doesn’t come up during artist interviews. While some musicians lost their main source of income, others were able to continue with their regular day jobs that, given the generally low pay for gigs, often allowed them to be active in the blues.

Others were forced to turn to webcasting. In Clarksdale, Lucious Spiller was one of the first to do these shows and was likely the most active, for a year he played every Wednesday night, on Thursday afternoons, a time amenable to Europeans, and on most Saturdays, about as often as he normally performed. Aside from a fall off after the first weeks, support for the gigs, which was almost enough to pay the bills, remained steady until things began to open up in May of 2021.

About five years ago, Clarksdale reached the milestone of live music seven days a week, 365 days a year, but that ended abruptly... The contemporary Southern soul market is largely structured around multi artist shows at large civic arenas, and it was only on July 9, 2021, when the first arena show resumed, the Southern Soul Live event during the 18th Annual Jackson, Mississippi, Black Rodeo at the Coliseum.

Source: Blues During the Pandemic by Scott Barretta

Ian Brown - Home Is Where The Heart Is

• Released on: Solarized album
• Genre: Electronic, Rock
• Vocals: Ian Brown

"Ian Brown is an English singer and multi instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses in 1983. Following their split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums."

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