Elijah “Lije” Dupree’s “High Water & Hard Times” (1927-1930s)
High Water & Hard Times is a free 12-track, two-hour Delta blues concept album following fictional bluesman Elijah “Lije” Dupree from Dockery Plantation and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 to the juke joints of Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago. It is a story of migration, survival, and the blues as resistance, created through human-AI collaboration.