Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite performing at the FedEx Blues Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/6/12
Memphis In May
Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/6/12
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/6/12
Kenny Brown and Duwayne Burnside at the Beale Street Music Festival 2012
Kenny Brown and Duwayne Burnside, Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/6/12
Kenny Brown and Duwayne Burnside Live at the Beale Street Music Festival, 2012
Hill Country bluesman Kenny Brown grew up near Mississippi Joe Callicutt in Desoto County, and was eventually mentored by the late R.L. Burnside. He has been tireless in his effort to preserve the Hill Country Blues tradition, not only through his performances and recordings but through he and his wife’s organization of the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic which is held in Marshall County, Mississippi each June. Here Kenny and Duwayne Burnside perform at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/6/12. You can purchase Kenny Brown’s most recent album “Can’t Stay Long” here:Â http://devildownrecords.com/
Alvin Youngblood Hart performs in the FedEx Blues Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/6/12
Old 97’s, Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/6/12
Noted musicologist Dr. David Evans is also a first-rate blues performer, and on Sunday, he opened the Southern Comfort Blues Shack at the Beale Street Music Festival, along with Elmo Lee Thomas of Elmo and the Shades.Â
The Alexis P. Suter band performs at the FedEx Blues Tent during the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/6/12
Beale Street Music Festival, Tom Lee Park, Memphis, 5/6/12