20 December 2022 — 0532 mst

Blues by Kingfish, Caleb, and Reeb, to start a blue cold day

By James Conner

It’s three degrees at my place near Kalispell, Montana — and it’s a lot colder east of the mountains and in high bowls such as Butte’s. Mesonet shows Cut Bank at -20°F. Tomorrow will be colder, and Thursday colder yet.

There’s cold, and there’s cool. And few performances are cooler than this one by blues master Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and mandolin virtuoso Caleb Klauber and his sidekick Reeb Willms.