Celebrating Brownsville, Tennessee’s Blues Legacy at the Exit 56 Blues Festival
Brownsville, Tennessee, in Haywood County, was the home of Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon, Yank Rachell, Charlie Sangster and Son Bonds from the blues world, …
West Memphis Kicks Off its Annual May Celebration of the Blues with Ra’Shad the Blues Kid
The city of West Memphis, Arkansas is a youngster as American cities go, having been founded really about the time of World War I, and …
Grind City Brewing Gives Memphis A New Amphitheatre and Kicks It Off With Great Music
Anyone familiar with Memphis’s Grind City Brewing Company knows that their beers are named for various aspects of the city’s music scene, particularly its soul …
Barefruit Introduces Arlington to Croughnuts
Everybody knows doughnuts, but what exactly is a croughnut? A new Arlington, Tennessee cafe called Barefruit Cafe can show you better than they can tell …
Big Memphis: Big Don Valentine is a Living Link with Memphis’s Blues Past
Long before rap music was a thing or synthesizers, drum machines or sequencers were invented, Memphis was a blues town, but despite the city’s long …
A Distillery And Live Music in Covington
Live music is not as common in Tipton County, Tennessee as it should be, but the opening of 797 Distillery gives reason to hope that …
Memphis’ South Main District on a Friday Afternoon
On what was really the first warm Friday afternoon of the year in Memphis, I headed downtown to the South Main Arts District. Memphis gets …
A Night of Hill Country and Cotton Patch Soul Blues in Olive Branch For the R. L. Burnside Museum
1836 Grill and Bar-B-Que is a new bar and grill in Olive Branch, Mississippi and on February 15, 2026, it was the scene of a …
You Can Go Home Again: Traveling to Recover the Taste of Youth
The saying is “You can’t go home again,” but it’s not always true. The recent announcement of Pizza Hut’s financial struggles occasioned a considerable amount …
A Bit of Mardi Gras in Downtown Memphis
On February 2, 1872, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia landed in Memphis, Tennessee, having come by boat down the Mississippi River from St. Louis. …