10/30/09: A Rainbow at Portico/Jimbo Mathus Live at Coda in Monroe LA
I got a very late start heading out of town because my computer wouldn’t sign on to the internet and I was on the phone …
Bands
10/23/09: I Am Music Workshop Day 1 St. Louis, MO
I had been invited to be a panelist at the I Am Music Workshop in St. Louis on Saturday, so I headed out early Friday …
10/04/09: Memphis to New Orleans
Nothin But Fire Records CEO Sess 4-5 had invited me to New Orleans to speak at a music industry workshop that he sponsors monthly, so …
9/23/09: Lulu’s Chocolate Bar in Savannah
I spent the better part of the day driving from Memphis across Alabama and Georgia, at one point not certain whether I-20 would be open …
8/29/09: Soul Is Waterproof
Today was my busiest speaking day at the conference, so I didn’t have time to leave the Quarter breakfast. Instead, my friend Rico Brooks and …
8/28/09: Heading Way Uptown
I decided to eat breakfast at a place called the Oak Street Cafe, which was in the far uptown neighborhood of Carrollton, so I walked …
8/27/09: Nuthin But Fire Records, Snowballs and Preservation Hall
Restaurants in the Quarter are expensive, so I drove out to a place called the River Cafe in Harahan that had received good reviews on …
8/16/09: RIP Jim Dickinson
Breakfast with Charlie Braxton and two of his sons at Broad Street Baking Company. Then I drove back to Memphis, but detoured into Water Valley …
8/15/09: Ya Heard Me Conference Day 2 in Jackson MS/Kevin Powell’s Keynote Speech
Breakfast at Primo’s in Ridgeland (always good), and then I headed out to the flea market in Pearl to look for old records and Jackson …
7/3/09: Visiting with jazz drummer Aaron Walker
My friend Aaron Walker, the jazz drummer, was in town visitng his mother, so I picked him up and we rode downtown to the Westin …