New Orleans’beloved Jazz Fest celebrates the wide diversity of New Orleans music, but the Memphis equivalent, the Beale Street Music Festival generally does not feature …
I had not planned on going to the Beale Street Music Festival this year, since I wasn’t particularly pleased with the line-up, and also I …
Mississippi blues musician Kenny Brown performs a Robert Johnson classic at the Beale Street Music Festival on Sunday afternoon, 5/5/13
Mississippi bluesman Kenny Brown played in R. L. Burnside’s last band, and the blues legend used to tell people that he had adopted Kenny. But …
I had seen Public Enemy live in Austin last month at SXSW, but their Sunday afternoon appearance at the Beale Street Music Festival was a …
Memphis veteran Al Kapone performs perhaps his best-known song “Whoop That Trick” from the soundtrack to the movie Hustle and Flow at the Beale Street …
Memphis rapper Al Kapone performs for the hometown crowd at Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/13
In many ways, the emergence of Al Kapone in the early 1990’s corresponded to the rise of Memphis rap as a unique subgenre of hip-hop, …
Clarksdale veteran James Super Chikan Johnson performs a song at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/4/13
Clarksdale-based James “Super Chikan” Johnson is a nephew of the late Big Jack Johnson, and one of the last of a generation of authentic Delta …
