The Tennessee Music Conference and the John Merritt Classic in Nashville.
Since conference events wouldn’t get under way until 11 AM, I had time to drive down to J. Christopher’s in Franklin for breakfast, and they …
Month: September 2008
Running From Gustav
Hurricane Gustav was out in the Gulf of Mexico, making a run at New Orleans, and everybody was being forced to evacuate, many of them …
Dallas’ Texas Summer Music Conference at the Westin City Center
I checked out of the Hyatt Regency since this was the first day of the Texas Summer Music Conference, and I drove up Cedar Springs …
A Day of Record Promotion in Dallas
I drove up to Buzzbrews at Central Expressway and Fitzhugh for breakfast, and then headed over to CD Source on Greenville Avenue, where I found …
The Freddie Jones Quartet at the Brooklyn Jazz Cafe, Dallas
The Cupboard in West Memphis had started selling breakfast, so I stopped there on my way out of town, and then I continued west on …
Breakfast at the Broken Egg Cafe in Mandeville
I had never driven across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, and the thought of a 26-mile-long bridge didn’t really appeal to me, but I wanted to …
Blessing the Instruments at Tipitina’s
It had rained all night, but the rain had ended, so I rode the riverfront streetcar down to the French Market, and then walked over …
“You Are Beautiful”: New Orleans Viewed from the Mississippi
I had seen a breakfast restaurant called Petunias the day before while walking around the French Quarter, so I walked over to it for breakfast, …
Uptown by Streetcar to the Camellia Grill
Yet another breakfast spot that I had read about in a New Orleans novel was the Camellia Grill out in Uptown on Carrollton Avenue, so …
A Quarter Interlude, New Orleans
I got a fairly late start out of Memphis, heading for the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference in New Orleans, and I stopped for a …