This week we're getting ready for the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Potts Camp, MS happening June 29th and 30th. We've got cuts from Burnside Exploration, T-Model Ford, Jimbo Mathus, Kenny Brown, North Mississippi All Stars and Taylor Grocery Band. Go to kennybrown.net in the linkage section for the complete lineup and directions. Good food, good music, good times! rw

Today we have Tommie T-Bone Pruitt of Ellisville recorded this past February at The Shed BBQ in Ocean Springs.  Thanks to Butch Johnson and congrats to The Shed for winning all those awards at the Memphis In May BBQ competition this month.

It's shaping up to be a big year for Tommie. On March 17th, T-bone and the boys were recorded by a visiting Croatian film crew for inclusion in a documentary for Croatian Public Television about volunteerism in the USA (no, it wasn't Borat ;o)

Also check out Tommie's new page on the Mississippi Arts Council web site by clicking on "T-bones MAC Page" in the Linkage section on the left. Thanks to Scott Barretta for his effort in coming to Laurel to interview Tommie and setting the whole thing up. Scott is the host of HWY 61 a weekly blues show on Mississippi Public Radio as well as contributing editor for Living Blues magazine.  (photo courtsey of Scott Barretta for the MAC) rw