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The Spearman Brewers are a Gulf Coast based band that plays Panhandle Blues, a rich gumbo of Pre-War Delta, Piedmont, and Country Blues, with healthy doses of Jazz, Gospel, Hokum, Cajun, and Jug music thrown in for flavor. The Brewers were formed in 2001 by Brewmaster Scott Riggs as a vehicle to deliver the sounds of time-forgotten 78 RPM records, playing tunes by the likes of the Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Mississippi Sheiks, Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, and Robert Johnson. Since those early days the Brew has evolved into an original act, with albums "Won't You Come Go With Me", "Rue Blue", and "Another Round", as well as EP "One Drink Minimum", showcasing their homegrown spin on traditional American music.The Brewers honor the past by bringing it to the present with original compositions based on the time-enduring styles of days gone by. It's the New Old Stuff, where the bottle hits the string.

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Belmont and Jones perform the pre-electric blues songbook with the integrity, frankness, brilliance, and humor with which it was performed by the great musicians who wrote and sang it. They don’t just memorialize a time in American music that influenced everything that was to come. They bring it alive. In so doing they reconnect the wellspring of the blues to the mainstream of American music.

-- Joel Zoss, songster and bluesman

Belmont & Jones play original music and blues from “the well” of traditional blues. This is not urbanized or electrified blues, but music that has virtually slipped into oblivion. Both seasoned musicians and songwriters in many styles of music, their music takes us back in time to when the blues were pure and simple, and soulfully true.

-- Debbie Dixon, Sopchoppy Concerts

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