Music
James Armstrong
The Muddy Waters
Friday, January 23, 9 p.m.
James Armstrong, who plays the Muddy Waters on January 23, is an electric guitarist and singer/songwriter whose venerated talents have earned him the nickname "The Ambassador of the Blues." But with Armstrong boasting, according to JazzTimes magazine, "the kind of flexibility that allows him to easily and convincingly shift gears," and celebrated blues historian Tony Russell calling him a master of "the flexible language of feeling allusion," I'd like to propose a new moniker for the famously flexible artist: Stretch Armstrong.
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