Eric Bibb One Mississippi LP

TAS Rated 4.5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the May/June 2026 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

One Mississippi is the 2026 album from three-time Grammy®-nominated blues icon Eric Bibb. Produced by Grammy®-nominated Glen Scott, the record features 14 tracks - 13 originals plus a striking cover of "One Mississippi," written by Bibb's longtime high school friend Janis Ian with Fred Koller.

Recorded in Uppsala, Sweden with an all-star cast including Robbie McIntosh (Paul McCartney, John Mayer), Greger Andersson, Paul Jones, and more, One Mississippi is Bibb's most musically adventurous and generous album to date. With standout songs such as "This One Don't" and "Didn't I Keep Runnin'," it blends timeless blues, folk, and Americana - giving it strong crossover appeal across genres and audiences.

Bibb's later-life work has earned widespread critical acclaim. One Mississippi builds on that momentum, following the Grammy®-nominated Ridin' (2023) and acclaimed In the Real World (2024).

With a career spanning five decades and a musical lineage rooted in his father, folk singer Leon Bibb, Eric Bibb has become one of the most respected and inspiring voices in modern roots music. One Mississippi is a profound statement from an artist at the peak of his powers.

Can't say enough good about Eric Bibb's new album, a work so complete in conception and execution it almost defies short-form description. Rooted in but not bound by the blues, One Mississippi (the Janis Ian-penned gem of a title track) touches down in blues, jazz, world music, and certainly folk, with subtle electronic touches for added narrative atmospherics. In his warm, velvety croon of a voice Bibb matter-of-factly lends moral heft to his socially conscious lyrics, always confronting our perilous moment with blunt, impassioned poetry... Behold a taste of the resistance taking root in the streets.