At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues.
As a fan of Delta blues, I usually listen to tracks that crackle and pop with age— Son House, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson. There aren’t many Gen Y New Englanders playing old-style Mississippi blues. As Crosby describes it, Bentonia blues carries a “brooding, ethereal, moody sound. A lot of the traditional lyrics deal with the devil, or a supernatural quality. There’s something very haunted about it.”His track “Going to Bentonia” — “Going to Bentonia, I’m gonna put my feet in the dirt/ I’m going to find the root of all my hurt” — feels like something of an album thesis. Crosby visits Bentonia a few times a year, what he calls healing trips, often to visit his mentor, Holmes.
“I switched out pretty quietly. I don’t think I’m very business-oriented,” he says with a chuckle. So he studied English, and started the Boston-based post-punk rock group Cancer to the Stars in 2000. They played area clubs — T.T. the Bear's Place, The Middle East, Lizard Lounge — until breaking up in 2004.
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