Erin Harpe & Countryman Jim come to Huey’s Poplar in Memphis!

Name: Erin Harpe & Countryman Jim come to Huey’s Poplar in Memphis!
Start: 2026-05-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Huey's Poplar

Schedule

Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Huey's Poplar | Memphis, TN

“Foot-stomping Front Porch Blues!”
Award-winning blues duo Erin Harpe & Countryman Jim (from Boston) come to Huey’s Poplar! ~ On tour promoting their new Blues Music Award-nominated album “Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me” (a tribute to bluesman Mississippi John Hurt) ~
Get ready for a fun evening of upbeat, danceable roots & blues that will have you smiling and singing along! New merch available at the show!!
Erin Harpe & Countryman Jim have been called “today’s country blues at its very best” by Living Blues Magazine, who crowned Erin “one of the finest fingerpicking acoustic blues singers in the land”. The award-winning group features Erin on acoustic guitar, vocals, kazoo & foot percussion, with husband Countryman Jim on ukulele bass, backing vocals and train whistle. This dynamic duo boasts a career studded with numerous accolades, and miles of musical highway!
“Few artists today embody the spirit of the country blues as purely, as humbly, and as beautifully as Erin Harpe.”
–Living Blues
“fresh and nostalgic at the same time”
–The Rock Doctor
“an artist who belongs in any conversation about top-notch present-day blues women.”
–Roots Music Report
Griffin Jazz (Grenada) called Erin a “Hypnotic singer extraordinaire and master of the Piedmont blues” and called their show “an irresistible overview of traditional American music of the early decades of the twentieth century… Memphis Minnie, Luke Jordan, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Lonnie Johnson, Slim Harpo and Muddy Waters fit right in with their original tracks.”
–Griffin Jazz (Spain)
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