D J Fitzgerald Band Live at Otha’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
I had not heard of the D J Fitzgerald Band until yesterday at SHarde Thomas’ End of Summer Party at Otha’s Place in Senatobia, but …
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End of Summer Festival at Otha Turner’s Place, Gravel Springs, Senatobia MS, 7/27/13
Otha Turner’s granddaughter Sharde Thomas sponsored an End of Summer Festival yesterday at Otha’s Place on O. B. McClinton Road at Gravel Springs, which is …
Duwayne Burnside Live at Foxfire Ranch, Waterford MS, 7/21/13
On Sunday, July 21st, I was driving back from Atlanta to Memphis, and while I stopped at O’Henry’s Coffee in Homewood, Alabama for a latte, …
Duwayne Burnside Joins The North Mississippi Allstars at @LevittShell @CTDickinson @Grammy365
To close out the Memphis Recording Academy’s 40th Anniversary concert, Luther and Cody Dickinson’s North Mississippi Allstars came on stage along with bluesman Duwayne Burnside. …
Shannon McNally (@McNally) Live at @LevittShell @Grammy365
Originally from the New York area, blues-roots singer Shannon McNally has lived a little bit of everywhere, from Austin to New Orleans, before choosing to …
Memphis Indie Vocalist Susan Marshall and Friends at the Recording Academy 40th @Grammy365 @LevittShell
Madjack Records artist Susan Marshall is yet another past president of The Recording Academy’s Memphis Chapter. Her performance at the 40th Anniversary concert at the …
West Dayton’s 14 Karat Gold Records
Cool neighborhood record stores used to be a fixture in nearly any Black neighborhood, but times are tough, and they’ve all begun to vanish from …
Live Jazz, Blues and Soul at the Greenwich
From the Jazz Club at Schwartz’s Point, I made my way over to the Greenwich on Gilbert Avenue, which is a historic-looking supper club in …
Owen Money’s Hill Country Blues on Beale Street
Hearing blues on Beale Street is rare enough, and hearing Hill Country blues is almost unheard of, so when I heard somebody playing the North …
A Beale Street Fourth
Despite the shootings and chaos that broke out on the riverfront on July 4th, Beale Street was crowded but peaceful. There were a couple of …