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Month: <span>June 2011</span>
Month: June 2011

Sundown in Crawfordsville

Crawfordsville, Arkansas, about 12 miles west of Marion, is the hometown of blues legend Johnnie Taylor, although there is nothing in the little town to mark that fact. Like all Delta towns, Crawfordsville has seen better days, but gets the occasional visitor due to Uncle John’s, a local institution famous for Italian food, catfish, steaks and ribs. 

And finally, there is the King Magazine Edition of Savvy Saturdays at Curtis Given’s Level II on American Way in Memphis, with doors opening at 10 PM. Lots to do this weekend. 

Another event going on this weekend at Club Kahlua.

Plenty of things going on this weekend. The Jimbo Mathus album release party is tonight at Two Stick in Oxford, Mississippi. doors open at 9 PM. The Passport Lounge/Parisian Experience is also tonight at metro 67, 67 Madison Avenue in downtown Memphis. Free with RSVP until 11 PM.

Lightning Malcolm joins Cedric Burnside on stage, and the crowd takes the dancefloor at the Hi-Tone.

Cedric Burnside carries on the legacy of his grandfather, legendary hill country blues guitarist R. L. Burnside. But what is unique about Cedric is first of all his amazing talent as a singer, a guitarist, a songwriter and a drummer. Even more impressive is how effortlessly he adapts the trance-like hill country style into the grooves of modern funk and rock-and-roll. The Hi-Tone, with its walls lined with multi-colored lights and old Memphis posters and album-covers, provided the perfect juke-joint ambiance for Cedric’s electrified hill-country stomps. An unexpected reunion with Lightning Malcolm capped the night’s festivities, coaxing the crowd out of their seats and onto the dancefloor.