Ryan Lee Crosby’s new album At The Blue Front is out this week on Crossnote Records. Recorded over two days at Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ historic Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Mississippi, the eight-track collection channels the hypnotic pulse of Bentonia and Hill Country blues through Crosby’s distinctive 12-string electric guitar.

Renowned for blending global influences with the raw intimacy of American Primitive blues, guitarist Ryan Lee Crosby has journeyed from his Portsmouth home to the legendary Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Mississippi—the very juke joint founded in the 1940s where Skip James once played—to record his forthcoming album At the Blue Front, set for digital, CD, and cassette release on August 20.