Memphian
Brad Webb is better known for his work with Blind Mississippi Morris, but he is an excellent bluesman himself, having grown up in Memphis in the era when Beale Street was still the main street of the city’s Black community, and when the
Memphis Country Blues Festivals held forth every summer at Overton Park. Unfortunately, thanks to the day-long rain and bitter cold, there was only a small crowd at Webb’s Beale Street Music Festival performance, and we couldn’t hear or enjoy Brad Webb very well because the festival organizers had placed Yngwie Malmsteen on the large stage to our left, and buffeted by that wall of sound, we could hear little else, even though we were standing directly in front of the Southern Comfort Blues Shack. It was, in fact, the second year in a row that the Blues Shack was disrupted by loud metal rock from the nearby stage.
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