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The Atlanta band Delta Moon, which features the twin slide-guitar attack of Tom Gray and Mark Johnson, was a surprise hit at the 2005 Columbia Blues Festival. The band returns this year for an encore performance, although this Delta Moon is quite a bit different from last year’s model.The two firebrand guitarists are still on board, but lead singer Kristin Markiton has left the band. Gray is now handling the lead vocals, and the band is playing much more original material.Delta Moon formed in the late 1990s in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood and quickly developed an impressive sound that’s been described as “swampy, Southern-styled blues.” In 2002, Delta Moon released a self-titled CD and began touring the South. In January of 2003, the band beat out a field of more than 50 groups from around the world to win the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.“Delta Moon stood out from the competition in so many ways,” wrote a critic in the Memphis Flyer. “In the variety, subtlety, and good taste of their repertoire … in their refreshing lack of macho posturing and instrumental showing off.”In February of 2003, the band recorded a live album and expanded its touring to include Canada, the American west coast, and Great Britain. An English reviewer, Peter Baker, loved the band, writing, “This is what roots music needs so badly, superb musicians, who aren’t up their own bums (Brit-speak for ‘asses’), having a good time and sharing it with the audience.”Another CD, “Goin’ Down South,” appeared in 2004, and it was voted No. 3 blues CD by WNCW-FM listeners that year in North and South Carolina. The band’s latest disc, “Howlin,’” features the vocals of Markiton, but new songs such as “Clear Blue Flame” and “Blind Spot” on the band’s website have assured fans that Delta Moon is still making fine Southern roots music.“Delta Moon is back to Mark and Me, the way we started, and we’re stoked about it,” Gray says. “We’ll keep working with the best people we can find and do our best to make the music worth listening to. So let’s have some fun.”