Biography:

 

D. Scott Riggs is a Gulf Coast based songwriter/musician that plays Panhandle Blues, a rich gumbo of Pre-War Delta, Piedmont, and Country Blues, with doses of Jazz, Gospel, Hokum, Cajun, and Jug music thrown in for flavor.

As frontman/songwriter for the road-tested band Spearman Brewers and as a solo troubadour, Riggs has toured the Great South for mutliple years, bringing his original Panhandle music to the meek and thirsty.

 

Influences:

 

Blind Boy Fuller, Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Casey Bill Weldon, Son House, Barbecue Bob, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Bukka White, Bo Carter, Blind Willie McTell, Washboard Sam, Blind Blake, Bumble Bee Slim, Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Memphis Jug Band, Mississippi Sheiks, Memphis Minnie, Django Reinhardt, Lonnie Johnson, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams Sr, Johnny Cash............Just to name a few.