The Hill Country Blues Continues: Cameron Kimbrough and Joyce Jones Live at The Dirty Crow Inn
I had seen that Cameron Kimbrough, the grandson of Hill Country blues legend Junior Kimbrough, would be playing at The Dirty Crow Inn on Saturday …
Album Reviews
Celebrating Jim Dickinson’s Beale Street Saturday Night With Sons Of Mudboy at Shangri-La Records
The late Jim Dickinson was passionate about Memphis’ Beale Street. He carried on a running feud in song with the Memphis Housing Authority and Memphis’ …
Album Review: James & The Ultrasounds “Bad To Be Here” @MADJACKRecords @ultrasound_901
Madjack Records is a Memphis label known for releasing first-rate indie material, so when I saw that they were releasing a new album by James …
SXSW Day 2: The Beginning of the New Vinyl Era at Austin’s @EndOfAnEar
With Austin being such a hip town, it has become ground zero for the vinyl renaissance, with plenty of vinyl record shops in several different …
Album Review: @SoulmanSnipes #TheClassicSoulProject #LyfeIsDope
Memphis rapper Snipes has always tried to connect Memphis’ soul past and its rap present in a way that few rap artists other than Al …
Yo Gotti Comes With His Strongest and Best Album Yet With “I Am” @YoGottiKOM @CaneiLive @JColeNC @Wale @Ne-Yo Compound
Fans of Yo Gotti‘s previous work might be in for a surprise when they listen to his recently-released album I Am, but the surprise should …
Album Review: @SonnyBama Chronicles The Southern Struggle
In the American mind, the South often brings up images of military struggle or racial struggle, but rarely that of class struggle. Yet, in his …
Album Review: Contemplating Perfection with John Kilzer’s Seven (Madjack Records)
John Kilzer should be a familiar name to most Memphians, although many will likely remember him for different reasons. At various times he has been …
John Murry’s (@johnmurry) Love Loss and Luxury In The Graceless Age
From the first notes of John Murry‘s debut album The Graceless Age, we are confronted with a dichotomy- on the one hand, the tuneful, lucsious …
Robert Kimbrough and the Blues Connection Live at Cat Head #jukejointfest @VisitClarksdale
The legendary Junior Kimbrough’s son Robert fronts a Hill Country blues band called the Blues Connection, and they went up on the stage in front …