Hello, I'm Shelby Kemp, and I'm a musician based out of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When I got out of school, I didn't really know what to do with myself. I came from a very rural part of the state and did my schooling at a place where any sort of music education program was the furthest thing from most folks minds. I bailed out of there to the next, slightly larger town over and started making music with anyone I could, for anyone who would listen. ​ See, I had grown up loving music. My family was full of good church singers, and my grandfather on my mother's side even played a pretty mean piano, but our familial love of music wasn't something I saw a lot of in other folks around us. When I got my first guitar at the age of 14, I gave up on my feeble attempts to be good at or enjoy sports or math or deer hunting, and I dove into learning all of my favorite songs on that instrument. Most of those songs were from the British rockers of the 60's and 70's. ​ As I dug into that iconic sound from across the Atlantic, I learned about the through-line from my favorite guitarists like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton that runs straight back across the pond and into my own back yard. Delta Blues, Country Blues, Folk Blues... whatever you want to call it, became my love and my greatest fascination. I learned how to open tune my guitar and started trying to emulate all of my favorite players... Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Mississippi Fred McDowell. It's a pursuit I have maintained into my adult life, and to this day there isn't much in this world I find more fulfilling than waking up and going through a whole pot of coffee trying to work out how to play an old blues tune.