A Night of Hill Country and Cotton Patch Soul Blues in Olive Branch For the R. L. Burnside Museum
1836 Grill and Bar-B-Que is a new bar and grill in Olive Branch, Mississippi and on February 15, 2026, it was the scene of a …
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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 …
Mason, Tennessee Celebrates Its Heritage With The Annual Fall Jubilee
Every fall, the small town of Mason in Tipton County, Tennessee holds an annual fall festival with vendors food trucks and live music. It generally …
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 …
Suavo J and the M-Town Band at Alley Dayz in Downtown Memphis
Originally, I had just planned to go downtown and see my friends Joshua McCain and the Soul Seven, who were playing at a bar called …
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., …
Local Wine Made From Local Grapes in Shelby County, Tennessee
Delta Blues Winery, just east of Rosemark inside the city limits of Lakeland, is Shelby County’s only local winery. An older one near Millington closed …
The Black Fire Band Brings the Fire to Los Cabos in Hickory Hill
Los Cabos is a Mexican Restaurant on Quince Road in the Hickory Hill neighborhood of Memphis. It’s not really a nightclub per se, but it …
Two Night of Jam Band Fun at the inaugural Duwayne Burnside Festival in Marshall County
Over the last decade or so, Hill Country bluesman Duwayne Burnside has sponsored a fall picnic, usually in September. It was usually called the R. …