When Joanna Connor slides in from Chicago, you know it’s a home run. The legendary blues artist and her band set the Maine coast on fire July 16.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

Why do you like returning to the North Atlantic Blues Festival?

Paul Benjamin knows how to put a festival together. He treats the performers really well. Right on the water. They feed us lobsters backstage! That doesn’t happen everywhere we go.

I love your slide guitar playing. When I first heard you play, I wondered, how could a person make such a universal sound like birds are flying around her in three dimensions.

Well, thank you! Once I’m warmed up and loose, I don’t think I’m living in real time.

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