The Shame of Horton Gardens
Back in the early 1970’s, Shelby County formed their own housing authority and built a housing project called Horton Gardens, at the dead-end of Horton …
Month: June 2015
Celebrating the Legacy of Hill Country Blues On Its Biggest Day
Although the Friday night shows had been harassed by storms, no such problem occurred on the Saturday of the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. In …
Rain But Undampened Spirits As The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic Kicks Off
The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, sponsored annual at Waterford, Mississippi by Sarah and Kenny Brown, is arguably the most important annual event in the …
Thursday Night Jazz With Ed Finney & Jeremy Shrader at The Cove
Jazz is getting increasingly harder to find in Memphis these days, and if that wasn’t bad enough, it recently got voted the least-popular genre of …
The Soulful Sounds of Tawanna Campbell at the Afterthought in Little Rock
I was really not familiar with Tawanna Campbell at all, but I was in Little Rock on business, and saw that she was performing at …
Thunder on Water at Grenada Lake
I had never heard of Thunder on the Water until my friend Sherena Boyce mentioned it to me a month or so ago as a …
A Youth Rally in Foote Homes
A few days after the Tate Street Block Party, the anti-violence group Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives (FFUN) sponsored a youth rally at Foote Homes, the …
Remembering The Fallen In Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a neighborhood in North Memphis, and near the entrance to it is a memorial to a young person named Lil Fly who …
Fun With A Purpose at the Tate Street Block Party
Tate Street, like all east-west streets in Memphis, is really an avenue, but it has always been called Tate Street by those who live there …
Cool Runnings with Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Roots Of A Rebellion at the Hi-Tone
Memphis has almsot no Caribbean expatriate community at all, and as a result, little Caribbean music either. What Jamaican music comes through the city is …