Mississippi Chris Sharp & The Jangalang String Band

Mississippi Chris Sharp & The Jangalang String Band

Mississippi Chris Sharp & The Jangalang String Band……..combining their own style of Bluegrass meets country meets rockin’ blues, mississippi chris sharp and the jangalang string band march to their own upright bass beat. Chris is the leader and they perform 90% of his original material.

Mississippi Chris Sharp makes no bones about his roots heritage. “I cut my teeth on Jimmie Rodgers records,” says Sharp, who learned his first Jimmie Rodgers tunes at the hands of Mrs. Elsie McWilliams, the sister-in-law of Rodgers, a member of the songwriter’s hall of fame, and the writer of such classic tunes as “Frankie and Johnny”

Also taking his first guitar lessons from Mrs. Virginia Shine, a first cousin of Rodgers and a talented songwriter in her own right, Chris got a double dose of old time country. “Add the musical raisin’ I got from Raymond E. Huffmaster, and you’ll understand how I got my start,” says Chris.

Sharp definitely is in a league of his own with a band full of truly unique kats.