The TBC Brass Band Plays For A Funeral Uptown
Funerals in New Orleans are fairly strange. It is common for the family members to hire a brass band for the funeral, and those in …
Funerals in New Orleans are fairly strange. It is common for the family members to hire a brass band for the funeral, and those in …
The modern concept of life insurance did not come to the South until after the Civil War, and when it did come, the early Southern …
The Grove on the campus of the University of Mississippi is a beautiful setting for any event, and it makes an awesome setting for the …
I grew up in Bartlett, and went to Bartlett High School. A lot of my friends lived in the Black community along Old Brownsville Road, …
Segregation of the races was the law in most of the Southern United States from around 1890 on, but as the Progressive era dawned in …
For reasons lost to history, at some point, there was a little wide place in the road north of Marion, Arkansas called Harvard. It wasn’t …
South of Turrell, Arkansas along Highway 77 are a string of small rural towns and communities before the county seat town of Marion. The largest …
As I have discussed before in this blog, Black fife and drum music is an endangered form of pre-blues that probably played a role in …
Although Clarksdale’s Ground Zero Blues Club is not nearly the blues club it once was, booking a lot more rock and country these days, it …
On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, I decided to continue my exploration of small towns and backroads in the Mississippi Delta. My first stop …