Ruby Wilson, the Queen of Beale Street, Live at Otha’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
An unexpected treat at Saturday’s End of Summer Festival at Gravel Springs was the appearance of Memphis blues great Ruby Wilson. Her performance got the …
Month: July 2013
Dr. David Evans at the End of Summer Festival at Otha’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
Dr. David Evans, a professor emeritus at the University of Memphis, is one of the foremost ethnomusicologists in the country, but he is also a …
Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band Live at Otha’s Place, 7/27/13
At any blues event, the arrival of Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band holds the crowd’s attention, and nowhere is this …
82-Year Old Bluesman Leo Welch at Otha Turner’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
I had never heard of Leo Welch before yesterday, but when the elderly man got on stage, he announced that he had been born in …
D J Fitzgerald Band Live at Otha’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
I had not heard of the D J Fitzgerald Band until yesterday at SHarde Thomas’ End of Summer Party at Otha’s Place in Senatobia, but …
End of Summer Festival at Otha Turner’s Place, Gravel Springs, Senatobia MS, 7/27/13
Otha Turner’s granddaughter Sharde Thomas sponsored an End of Summer Festival yesterday at Otha’s Place on O. B. McClinton Road at Gravel Springs, which is …
Mike Mosby’s Hard Hitters Band Live at the Princeton Experience at Zodiac Restaurant, Hickory Hill, Memphis, 7/26/13
Memphis drummer Michael Mosby returned to Memphis after a stint in Atlanta, and has since put together one of the city’s best bands, the Hard …
Duwayne Burnside Live at Foxfire Ranch, Waterford MS, 7/21/13
On Sunday, July 21st, I was driving back from Atlanta to Memphis, and while I stopped at O’Henry’s Coffee in Homewood, Alabama for a latte, …
The Municipal Schools and the Federal Courts
Does the formation of municipal schools in Shelby County violate Federal court orders pertaining to the rights of Black children to attend integrated schools? It …
Exquisite Coffees and Desserts at Atlanta’s New Midtown @CafeIntermezzo
I was not at all thrilled when I heard last November that Atlanta’s Cafe Intermezzo would be moving from its long-time location in upper Midtown …