3/16/11: First day of SXSW
My first day of South By Southwest each year tends to follow a pattern. I usually start the day with a visit to The Omelettry, …
Blues
4/16/10: Student Art Show at Caritas Village in Bimghampton, Memphis
Binghampton’s Caritas Village is an amazing coffee bar, art space, community center, housing co-op and a lot more, and on Friday, they sponsored an art …
4/15/10: Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale
I drove down to Clarksdale last Thursday to meet up with Justin Showah, the owner of Hill Country Records, who was playing the opening night …
4/8/10: An Evening at Sandestin
The trip from Gainesville back to Memphis is a long one, so I planned to break it up somewhere between, and discovered that I could …
Classie Ballou and Barbara Lynn at The Continental and RIP Eddie Bo
Al Kapone and Sir Vince and I all went to Jim’s Restaurant for breakfast, and then Al had to go downtown for an interview. Vince …
A Requiem for Lee Street and the Death of Port Arthur
Al Kapone had arranged for me to get access to the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, where he was performing this year, so …
Memphis to Birmingham to Destin
It was the first day of my vacation, so I headed out of Memphis, stopping by a Danver’s on South Perkins for breakfast and then …