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A big time was had by all at June's Sucarnochee Revue at the Temple Theatre in Meridian. Below are some clips from the 6/4/10 performance of yours truly with the Jang-A-Lang String Band. It was good to have Clint and Augie back on the show.

May 7, 2010 The all gospel Sucarnochee Revue was a great success! It was always good to see one of Bluegrass music's few remaining first generation bands, The Sullivan Family. Enoch and Margie were and still are musical inspirations to me. I was glad for the chance to fill in on the bass since their long-time bassist, Joy DeVille was unable to be at the show. I have long looked forward to the opportunity to play with them. Below are some videos from the show.

And if that weren't enough, below is me with my daughter, Piper; Bryan Hayes; and my son-in-law, David. We just NAIL my all-time favorite tune, GREEN PASTURES. I hope you enjoy this. I sure enjoyed its performance!

May 6, 2010: Had a big time at Timberview Lodge and Stump Whipped Studio in Porterville this past Thursday. We hosted the great Spider Murphy for a recording for future podcast of The APEX RADIO HOUR. Ol' Spider was in rare form with his tenor banjo and tenor guitar. It's been a while since I was able to enjoy the tenor banjo, particularly someone playing one who played it so well. I was glad to sit in with Spider on the Bass, while John Rowdy held down the percussion. Also coming in for he recording were Daniel Sharp, David Lauderdale, and Amy Lott, of ALL AROUND HOUNDS, and the inimitable LOGAN LIBERACE, on loan from the band DARK SUNDAYS. Loof for this firite podcast wherever you are used to finding THE APEX RADIO HOUR in the near future. In the meantime, here's Spider and me from a few videos that I posted on YouTube!

California, here I come. Off in July for some music in Northern California. Taking my son with me. We're preparing for a good time!

4/10/10 Thanks to TurnRow Books, Jamie and his family, the folks who work there and all the folks who turned out to see Tricia Walker, Davis Raines, and Me at the Summer Songwriter Series this past Friday evening. It was GREAT! I was just glad to be there with such talented songwriters and performers. I have some video of the events and will post some later after my video computer gets through with its marathon compiling session. Those Hi-Def files tale some time on a FAST computer to compile after editing. There is more posted on this on my CLL blog. Thank you, Tricia Walker, for inviting me to come and participate in this event!

This Friday evening, 4/9/10, at TURNROW BOOKS on Greenwood, Mississippi, fro 6:00PM to 9:00PM, I will be appearing with the great Tricia Walker and Davis Raines at the Summer Songwriter Series. Thanks to Tricia for inviting me to come along on this one! Visit Turnrow Books' website HERE.

Next Sucarnochee Revue 4/16/10 at The University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama.

Piper, David and Me from the Magnolia Music Festival in Philadelphia, Mississippi on March 20. The above song is called SWEAT TO GOLD

And from Friday night, March 26, 2010, at The Sucarnochee Revue at The University of West Alabama, in Livingston, Alabama, a sultry, lonesome, and powerful rendition of Merle Travis' DARK AS A DUNGEON. Great Harmony singing by Bryan Hayes and Piper.

Come see Mississippi Chris at the 2nd Annual Magnolia Music Festival in Philadelphia, Mississippi, on Saturday, March 20. Kicking things off Saturday with me will be Piper and David Lauderdale. This show is a benefit for the United Way.

FRIDAY, MARCH 19
7 – 7:45 Dark Sundays
8 – 8:45 Self-Made Fools
9 – 9:45 SunWolf
10 – 12 Calico

SATURDAY, MARCH 20
2 – 2:45 Mississippi Chris Sharp
3 – 3:45 Mike Case
4 – 4:45 Addison Shock
5 – 5:45 Billy Singleton
6 – 6:45 Danielle Reed
7 – 7:45 Billy Hardy and Mickey Fuggitt
8 – 8:45 Random Theory Revival

The Magnolia Music Festival benefiting the United Way of Neshoba County is the brainchild of two local musicians.

Ben Hardy, of Philadelphia, and Daniel Sharp, of Bethsaida, joined together to institute the need for a charitable event put on by, and performed by local people. Daniel Sharp, a talented singer/songwriter himself, said he and Ben came up with the idea after playing at an outdoor festival just south of Meridian.

"After we were done playing at this festival, we talked about having something for Neshoba County and local musicians," Sharp said. "Ben really took this idea under his wing and made it happen."

"It's a music festival featuring local musicians," said Hardy. "We decided that it would be even better if we did it for a great cause, like United Way."

"There is so much local talent here and we wanted everyone to have a chance to see it," Sharp said.

Leigh Allyn White, executive director for United Way of Neshoba County, said that all proceeds of this event will go to helping the United Way's goal or ensuring full funding this fiscal year for all 18 agencies it is supporting.

She said. "One of my personal goals was to bring United Way back home to our community, and we will have the agencies give testimonials throughout the event. I believe that this festival is a great time to make the connection with local groups and bands coming together to help the United Way and show the talent that lives in our county."

I was at the Sucarnochee Revue. I was not detained by any of the previously mentioned things, so I was there. I posted a video from that show, but there is no link to it on my home page. You'll have to go the the CLL BLOG to see it and read about why I chose the song I did.

Thumbnails of friends Geno and Zeno, The Fedora Brothers (Gene Bush and Bruce Nemerov) seated on the Ed Dye Memorial Bench on Saturday, March 6, 2010.

3/2/10 I will be at the Sucarnochee Revue, Friday, March 5, 2010. I missed last week, but will not miss this week unless we have a complete breakdown of law and order and civilization as we know it, civil unrest and the declaration of martial law, a disastrous New Madrid fault movement, or (accidental or intentional) nuclear devastation ...any of which would cause my non-attendance at the show to not be noticed. Short of that, though, Ill see you there! Show-time is 7:00PM at the Temple Theatre. A lot of entertainment for $8.00!

I regret that I will not be performing at the 2/26/10 Sucarnochee. I hope to be able to the following Friday at the Show in Meridian. It will still be a good show. As Ed Dye would say, "One monkey don't stop no show!" I'll be at the Temple Theatre on Friday, March 5, 2010 with bells on. It's our first annual Ed Dye Memorial show! Come be with us! In the meantime, enjoy a big show at Bibb-Graves Hall on the campus of UWA in Livingston, Alabama, February 26.

Sucarnochee Revue, Friday, February 26, 2010. Bibb-Graves Hall, University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama. Showtime: 7:00PM

Eight more Miles to Louisville -Terry Baker on Fiddle, Bryan Hayes on Guitar, and me from The Sucarnochee Revue 1/1/10. One of my all time favorite songs. Hats off to GrandPa Jones on this one.

The Family Who Prays - My daughter, Piper Lauderdale and Me with this Louvin Brothers song. Bryan Hayes on Guitar.

Weapon of Prayer - another of my favorites. Always seems to fit our nation, which seems to always have troops at risk somewhere in the world. I salute them all for their service and sacrifice. Another Louvin Brothers Tune.

Born Again - Piper and I seem to be unable to get away from those Louvin Brothers Duets . . . and why would we want to?

Dig a Hole in the Meadow - Traditional Arrangement ©2009 J. Christopher Sharp/Stump Shipped Music/ASCAP - - A sultry arrangement. I am playing the Mando-Cello. Me, Augie Joachim on bass, and Bryan Hayes doing a fine job on the resonator guitar.

The Christmas Spirit - ©2005 J. Christopher Sharp/Stump Whipped Music/ASCAP - - A Christmas song I wrote several years ago. We did not do a multi-track audio recording of this show. This was recorded on my Zoom H4 which I placed beside the FOH mixer. A rouge cell phone which beeped and beeped and beeped messed up the intro of this song. You do not hear the beep since I cut it out, but you do hear Barry Roebuck (FOH engineer) and one of his assistants discussing this during a break in the song. I usually do this as a duet with my daughter, Piper, but she was unable to be there, helping her mother at a Christmas party at Timberview Lodge.

Clint Jordan puttin' it in there on "Wild Horses." from the 11/6/09 Sucarnochee Revue

10/27/09 Had a great visit with Larry Perkins and Rhonda Hampton. They were down to help Avil Linton capturesome old tunes. Also helping out were friends Lyle Meador and Raymond Huffmaster. Here's a couple of photos of Larry and me on the ED bench, and Miss Rhonda and her spiced morning coffee!!! Videos to come, soon!

10/8/09 Piper, Augie and Me from The Sucarnochee Revue, 10/2/09. "The Wind Against My Sail"

ROCK ISLAND LINE - From the Sucarnochee Revue of 11/08, with the late remarkable Cousin Ed Dye cuttin' up on the stage!

From the 8/28/09 Sucarnochee Revue - My daughter, Piper, and me with the rest of the band doing her song, "Poor Mississippi Me."

From the 8/28/09 Sucarnochee Revue The Luckiest Man T'was Born. With Clint Jordan, Bryan Hayes, Augie Joachim, and the great Gene Bush on dobro!

Thanks to John Lawless at The Bluegrass Blog for his report on the Ed Dye Memorial Bench!

8/9/09 I was glad to have the full Jang-A-Lang effect on this past Friday's Sucarnochee. Thanks to the guys and to my lovely daughter, Piper! Also thanks to my friend C.P. Bush for the raw video footage!

7/9/09 Incontrovertible evidence that rural Mississippi has made enormous strides in making all the conveniences and comforts of modern American urban civilization available to its citizens, as seen in this photograph I took of a sign on the door of a restroom in a country store in Preston, Mississippi, in Kemper county. Now, rural Mississippians no longer have to feel like second rate citizens. Things not heretofore found in rural Mississippi, things formerly available only to the citizens of America's cosmopolitan areas have finally come to the country. There is no longer any reason to move to the city, since there's nothing in the city that cannot be had out here in the country.

One of my close friends from the Northeast once callously and ignorantly remarked, "Going to Mississippi is like going to a third world country." It turns out that my friend had never been to Mississippi, nor had he ever been to a third world country. From time to time I remind my friend that he once said that. Over the years, something keeps bringing him back this third world country that is Mississippi. Maybe it's something in the water. Maybe it's our mild winters. Maybe it's our hot, torpid summers. Maybe it's the pace we set during those hot summers. Maybe it's the people.

The song says, "I've been everywhere, man!" I have, too. Everywhere I've been, as my wife will attest, I come back saying that where I just was was a really great place. Maybe some folks enjoy their own company and the company of others in such a way that the PLACE is irrelevant. Maybe some folks can't do that. I know one thing . . . I look out over the hills at my home in the mornings and I like it here in Mississippi just fine . . . but then again, I was born here. Lucky me!

The sign on the bathroom door is really an indictment that rural areas have slunk to the level of urbanity. That's a shame!

Thanks to Eva Herod for providing me with these photos she took at the Sucarnochee Revue, July 3, 2009. From left: CHEESY ME, Bryan Hayes, Piper Lauderdale. Thank you Ms. Eva, for sharing these photos.

My daughter, Piper Lauderdale, played the July 3, 2009, show with me, Bryan Hayes, and Augie Joachim. Listen to the links below for the duets we did. It is always a joy and a pleasure to sing duets with Piper.

5/14/09 Audio from Ed Dye Memorial SUCARNOCHEE REVUE show posted. See link bar to left!

5/11/09 Click on the tab "Ed Dye Memorial Page" to the left for photos and information concerning our friend Ed Dye's recently held Memorial Service.

3/19/09 I have gotten this website unscrambled. There may be links and music files that don't work, but I'll be repairing them as soon as I can. In the meantime, the performance dates page is unreliable. Please visit my MYSPACE page at

This world ceased its dominion over the wonderful, entertaining, and singularly remarkable Cousin Ed Dye at 1:30AM CDT, March 18, 2009, and he peacefully passed from magnificence to glory. His many, many friends and his family are all mourning this loss!

If you have any stories, photos, music recordings, or videos of Ed that you would like to share to post here on this website, please contact me at missippichris@yahoo.com, or just send them on.

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