Helena-West Helena artist Jámin Crawford is the winner of the annual King Biscuit Blues Festival poster contest.

Crawford's "The Birth of King Biscuit" was unveiled last week and is a hat-tip to the history of "King Biscuit Time," the blues program that began airing in November 1941 on Helena radio station KFFA, AM-1360, and can still be heard weekdays from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

The drawing, made with colored pencils, uses as its reference a photograph of KFFA's original owner, Sam Anderson, at a microphone with musicians Sonny Boy Williamson to his right and Robert Lockwood Jr. to his left. A bag of King Biscuit flour leans........

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