The Mississippi Hippies - Hippie e-news

HIPPIE RADIO PLAY - Big Smoke Records and The Mississippi Hippies would like to thank the many radio stations from North America and Europe that have been playing The Mississippi Hippies new self-titled release. From British Columbia to the Carolinas and across the ocean to France and Germany, we thank you all. Did we forget Texas? Also a very special acknowledgement to David Barnard-CKLN/Toronto ON, John 'Fessa' Hook-Endless Summer Network, Myrtle Beach, SC, Jim Santella WBFO, Buffalo NY ...read more!

BLUESINLONDON.COM - THIS IS PARTY BLUES AT IT'S BEST! - by Vince Velour - Don't be deceived by the name, the Hippies don't hail from the Delta. However, they do appear to be hippies. Proper hippies, with ban the bomb symbols and excessive facial hair. But don't expect to find any Grateful Dead style love-ins ...read more!

BLUES REVUE MAGAZINE - BLUES BYTES - by Tom Hyslop/Blues Revue Magazine - The new recording by The Mississippi Hippies (Big Smoke), a rowdy, raw, roots affair. This big band updates (only slightly) vintage Blues, R&B, and Rock sounds with hip originals, Sci-Fi Baby, Luv Pad, Dangerous Curves...read more!

LA HORA del BLUES - MUY BUENO!! - by Vicente Zumel/La Hora del Blues - A very effective impressing Rockin’ Blues band which perfectly know how to catch you to deepest part of your heart. ...read more!

FIRST CLASS PARTY RECORD! -by Eric Stiener/ Cosmik Debris- The Mississippi Hippies aren't really from the Magnolia State, but this band sounds like it hails from juke joints all the way from Clarksdale down to Rosedale and back. Toronto's Mississippi Hippies are closer to Mississauga than to the Mississippi Delta, but they've produced a first-class party record that's worthy of any comparison I might make to the giants...read more!

THIS GROUP IS GOING PLACES! -by Tom Radai/Blues Mgt. Group/- Every few years I come across a recording that just knocks my socks off. Just such a product found its way to me recently and when I learned that it was produced by some of the classiest people in the industry my intrigue was amplified ...read more!

JOHN'S BLUES PICKS/MAPLE BLUES MAGAZINE - by John Valenteyn/ Maple Blues/- Perhaps oddly named for a local band, the teaming of John Dickie with Gord and Hugh Leggat, of Foot in Coldwater fame, has resulted in a smoking album of New Orleans-flavoured rocking Blues...read more!

RARE AND GENUINE EXCITEMENT - by Greg Quill/ Toronto Star/ Feb17/05 - In joyful acknowledgement of Toronto’s enduring passion for bedrock Blues, these proudly un-reconstituted Young St. saloon warriors bring a raw and elemental edge to 10 originals that recall the trademark...read more!

LIVINBLUES CD REVIEW by Gary Tate/Jan/05 - Who cares about such details as to why they call themselves The Mississippi Hippies, especially when you're getting an adrenalin rush from their explosive carnival of 'Rock-em/Sock-em' revivalism. These musical Canadian veterans, by way of Toronto...read more!