Blues artist Mudbone will headline Riverfront Nights at Ross's Landing, 201 Riverfront Parkway, on Saturday, Aug. 11.
Chattanooga's masked musicians Genki Genki Panic will open Saturday's free concert at 7 p.m. before Mudbone comes on at 8 o'clock.
Mudbone's debut release, "Rivers & Roads," was a double album divided by river songs/muddy water blues on one disc; odes to the joys and travails of highway-traveling singers on the other.
His shows are said to be "the story of American music one song at a time" as he takes audiences on a journey from late 19th-century blues through country, soul, funk and rock.
He grew up near the Black River in Northeast Arkansas in a family of gospel/bluegrass singers. Early in life, his family traveled all over the South singing gospel music for love offerings and sometimes opening for bigger gospel acts.
He spent his adolescence riding a Greyhound bus, guitar in hand, playing honkey-tonks and dives all over the Mississippi Delta. By the time he moved to Nashville, Mudbone had developed a signature sound that appeals to a wide range of music-lovers.
For more information: 423-664-8600.