Though I didn’t make it out much this summer – principally due to the hacking incident – I was able to catch a few shows, one of which took place at The Parish and involved two of my favorite up-and-coming artists, one, local rootsman Andrew Duhon and the other, alt-country songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield. Duhon, a mid-twenties stinger-songwriter, colors his rambling, rolling acoustic melodies with a rugged, earthy rasp tempered with a touch of southern soul. Often, he can be seen sitting alongside Ernie Vincent, accompanying the urban blues master’s stiff, six-string strut with a sizzling harmonica. Mayfield, whose last show in the Big Easy was also covered on Groovescapes, is one of the sharpest and most bewitching young songwriters in the country. Painful and delicate yet haunting and fierce, her agonized cries and tortured tales reach far deeper than the lighthearted musings of her contemporaries.