Meet me in Atlanta for the Southeast Urban Music Conference June 20-23, 2011.
Industry Insider Music Summit June 10th-12th 2011 (by filthyfloridadjs) Are you going to be there? I am!
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The Hill Country Harmonica Homecoming at the Hill Country Blues Pavilion, Foxfire Ranch, Waterford, MS May 21, 2011
At a Highway 7 store, an older man explained to me that the Burnside Blues Cafe wasn’t open because the Burnsides (or at least some of them) were out at Foxfire Ranch because of something called the Hill Country Harmonica Homecoming. So I drove to the ranch, and got in on the tail end of blues duo Satan and Adam doing “Staggerlee”, followed by the band Sugar Blue. Lots of fun at the Hill Country Blues Pavilion.
When I drove east on Highway 310 from Como to the Burnside Blues Cafe, I found that nobody was there, and, with it still being somewhat early, I drove back into Oxford for a cappuccino at High Point Coffee. The square was aglow with a sort of magic at sundown as the music of a band from a wedding reception drifted across the street.
Pursuing the Hill Country Blues Tradition in Como
Perhaps no town is as much a part of the Hill Country Blues tradition as the small town of Como, Mississippi in Panola County. It was the hometown of Mississippi Fred McDowell, and of Otha Turner, whose Rising Star Fife and Drum Band may be last band of its kind in America. Today, it is home to great restaurants like the Como Steak House and the Windy City Grill, the Como Inn bed-and-breakfast, and Jimbo Mathus’ Delta Recording Service, where great music is still being recorded. It’s also worth noting that at some point, Tallulah Bankhead briefly lived there!
Main Street, Sardis, MS May 21, 2011
Batesville, MS May 21, 2011
Around the Court Square in Oxford, May 21, 2011