Food, Fun, Blues, Soul and Fellowship at the Mason Jubilee Fall Festival
Mason, Tennessee is a unique town in the middle of Tennessee’s most Delta-like region, close to the junction of Fayette, Tipton and Haywood Counties. Its …
Some Wholesome Rap and Traditional Blues at the Hatchie River Fest in Brownsville
Memphis bluesman Big Don Valentine had been called at the last minute to a fill a gap in the schedule of the Hatchie River Festival …
A Hidden Place For Great Seafood in Marion
Marion, Arkansas, in the Arkansas Delta is not a place one would immediately expect seafood, especially in a converted former fast-food restaurant near the interstate. …
West Memphis Blossoms Along the Broadway of America
West Memphis, Arkansas is a youngster as cities go, having been founded only about 1916. Its growth was steady throughout the 1920s, and even continued …
A Renaissance For South Eighth in West Memphis
Beale Street is one of the most storied streets in African-American history and folklore, but its sibling across the river, West Memphis’s Eighth Street has …
In Mason, A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down.
Little signs along Highway 59 alerted me to something that sadly is fairly unusual these days, a new business opening in the small Tipton County, …
Joe Hall’s Annual Car Show on Lum Guffin’s Old Grounds, Bartlett, Tennessee
The man they call Joe Hall is one of the eight children of the late Bartlett blues musician Columbus “Lum” Guffin, who was the descendant …
Old Highway 61 from Marion to Turrell
Since the building of I-55, most folks breeze on their way from West Memphis to Blytheville without seeing any of the old East Arkansas towns …
Baaloo is Bartlett’s Hometown Coffee Roastery
The Memphis area suburb of Bartlett, Tennessee not that long ago had no coffee at all. Then we got a Starbucks, and then about a …
Flyway Brewery Is More Than Just Beer
Craft beer has been having something of a struggle recently, and a number of small craft brewers have failed around the country. Theories range from …