Mississippi Ol MacDonald plays and sings the real delta blues. He has played with Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year and Mercury Music Prize Nominee Seth Lakeman, and Steve Ellis and Love Affair ("Everlasting Love"). Mississippi has played session guitar for Nick Keir (The McCalmans), on his "All Over This Town" LP which got airplay on BBC Radio Scotland.
In 2007, he opened for Guy Davis (USA) on the Scotland leg of his European tour. Mississippi is the owner of the world's smallest blues museum - he owns one of Robert Cray's guitar picks and a splinter of wood from the shack in which Muddy Waters was born.
Elliot Hall loves music and that is why he is still doing it. It is the first thought that flashes through his brain when he wake up and the last one before he goes to bed and most of the ones inbetween as well. Obsessed? Yeah, you're probably right. Sometimes he wishes he could stop pursuing this crazy dream because it would make his life a lot simpler but the reality is he can't - he'll be doing this 'till the day he dies.
Venue Magazine says he is a "a demon-eyed and thoroughly broken singer trying to separate shards of God and mutated angels from urban disease....a fascinating performer". Hysteria Mag says Elliot is 'what Bob Dylan would have sounded like had he been on an acid downer his whole career....a slightly more morbid version if you will.........piecing together fragmented torment and destruction; love; loss; addiction and decadence ..the vicous soundtrack of a convential existence" Bristol Rock says he is "larger than life and quite unique - his poetry is unusual and clever". There is more at elliothall.co.uk and myspace.com/elliothallmusic
(c) Oliver MacDonald / Mississippi Records, 2007, 2008
