Mississippi MacDonald

Mississippi MacDonald is a blues musician from London, UK. He plays blues and related styles including blues rock, contemporary blues, harmonica blues and guitar blues. He has been playing since the age of 11 and has travelled extensively on the US blues trail.

Background and influences

MacDonald meets and has met a number of notable blues figures, including B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Lucky Peterson. These connections place him within a long-running blues tradition and reflect his engagement with the genre in the United States as well as in the UK.

Notable activity

In 2010, MacDonald is part of the team that purchases a gravestone for O.V. Wright, the late Hi Records recording artist and soul singer. He is also associated with a bandcamp presence under the name Mississippi MacDonald & The Cottonmouth Kings.