Food, Fun, Blues, Soul and Fellowship at the Mason Jubilee Fall Festival
Mason, Tennessee is a unique town in the middle of Tennessee’s most Delta-like region, close to the junction of Fayette, Tipton and Haywood Counties. Its …
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A Renaissance For South Eighth in West Memphis
Beale Street is one of the most storied streets in African-American history and folklore, but its sibling across the river, West Memphis’s Eighth Street has …
Old Highway 61 from Marion to Turrell
Since the building of I-55, most folks breeze on their way from West Memphis to Blytheville without seeing any of the old East Arkansas towns …
Flyway Brewery Is More Than Just Beer
Craft beer has been having something of a struggle recently, and a number of small craft brewers have failed around the country. Theories range from …
Celebrating Fayette County’s Blues Legacy in Moscow, Tennessee at the Inaugural Ghost River Blues Festival
Fayette County, Tennessee is historically a twin of Marshall County, Mississippi which lies to its south, both demographically and geographically. Both counties had Black majorities, …
Big Memphis: Big Don Valentine is a Living Link with Memphis’s Blues Past
Long before rap music was a thing or synthesizers, drum machines or sequencers were invented, Memphis was a blues town, but despite the city’s long …
Hip Hop and a Live Band at the Hip-Hop Lounge in Memphis
Saturday night January 17th, my homeboy Donnon Johnson called me and told me to come to the Hip Hop Lounge on Raleigh-Lagrange Road in Northeast …
On the Patio with Joshua McCain and the Soul Seven at the Greyhound
After I walked up to the Dollar General Store on the Main Street Mall to buy batteries for my camera, I was closer to Union …
The Blues’s Last Outpost in an Out of the Way North Memphis Bar
Visitors to Memphis’s Beale Street are usually disappointed. Although the street is famous for blues, blues is rarely heard there these days; the street’s fate …
Cool Jazz at The Cove in Memphis’ Broad Avenue Arts District
The city of Memphis has produced a lot of great jazz musicians- Jamil Nasser, Charles Lloyd, Booker Little, Frank Strozier, Harold Mabern, Phineas Newborn Jr., …