A Day in New Orleans With The TBC Brass Band
It was Satchmo Summer Fest weekend in New Orleans, and my friends in the To Be Continued Brass Band, or TBC, had invited me to …
It was Satchmo Summer Fest weekend in New Orleans, and my friends in the To Be Continued Brass Band, or TBC, had invited me to …
Our whole goal for the afternoon had been to make it to Indianola for lunch, but we were in for a disappointment, because when we …
West Point, Mississippi is the northern point of what is commonly called the Golden Triangle (the other two points are Starkville and Columbus), and not …
Any second-line route is likely to pass by any number of churches, but what I had never noticed until last week was how many of …
On the way to the Bentonia Blues Festival, I had to pass through Lexington, Mississippi, the county seat of Holmes County, and I stopped at …
The Citizens to Save Our Parks and other groups that want to retain Memphis park names that honor the Confederacy often accuse those of us …
Usually, the stops along a second-line are a moment of rest. The band stops playing, and the marching club members go inside the headquarters of …
Before Treme was a TV show, Treme was a neighborhood, named for Claude Treme, the owner of the plantation back of New Orleans’ ramparts, which …
Memphis vocal group The Mad Lads were another group of South Memphians, led by John Gary Williams, who recorded a number of singles and albums …
On the way back from Baltimore to Memphis, we passed through the little town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, known primarily for John Brown’s raid …