
30 years ago Creighton Lindsay sat onstage with bluesman Son House learning from the master, and today you can hear Son's unmistakable influences in Lindsay's exciting new CD Round by Round. During the 1970s, Creighton Lindsay impressed North American and European folk music audiences with his spirited performances and recordings with a series of accomplished acts in the traditional music idiom—Jon Cooper, Wild Mountain Thyme, and The Ambassadors. The release in 1982 by Rooster Records of “I Ain’t Worried” (Creighton’s first solo effort) quickly established Creighton Lindsay as one of the finest of a new generation of American roots stylists. Lindsay’s distinctive slide guitar and evocative compositions caught the ear of filmmaker Gus Van Sant, who hired Creighton to compose the musical score for his first full-length feature film Mala Noche in 1985--a New York Times “Critic’s Pick”. In the 1990s, the independent label Time & Strike released a number of recordings featuring Creighton Lindsay: the CD re-iss