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Legendary Blues man D. C. Minner returned in 1998 after 25 years on the road to his birthplace in Rentiesville OK and brought a wealth of music with him. He re-opened his grandmother’s corn-whiskey house The Cozy Corner as the DOWN HOME BLUES CLUB, which ran as an after hours club for 7 years …this evolved into the ongoing internationally respected DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL, founded in 1991. Minner’s band was added to the OK Arts Council Rosters in 1990.

DC and his wife-bassist Selby play firmly in the OK-TX style of T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, and Lowell Fulson, with singing that is relaxed and ingratiating, funky and LIVE! Their ‘true-juke-joint-for-the-nineties’ continues to his day as a Festival Site, Preservation Hall and Blues Hall of Fame. The pair has won an international KBA from the Handy People (Blues Foundation in Memphis) for their BITS (Blues in the Schools) work with kids. DC was inducted into the OK Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999, had the street next to the Blues Club named after him the same year; in 2003 he was inducted into the OK Music Hall of Fame and (by popular vote) the Payne County Hall of Fame!