As a young man in the early 1960s, Greenwood, Mississippi-born Sid Selvidge met, befriended, and learned from such Delta blues legends as Furry Lewis, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, and Mississippi John McDowell - and for the subsequent four decades, Sid has been hard at work fine tuning.

With a voice as smooth as Kentucky corn liquor and a guitar tone as smoky as Tennessee barbecue, Sid has kept faith with his mentors by developing his own approach to the music that is refreshingly natural and utterly without pretense. On occasion, Sid achieves a powerful intensity that can be downright scary; at other times, he can invigorate a classic tune with a new sense of wonderment.

Sid, who now resides in Memphis, released his fifth album, the retrospective Portrait, in 1998.