9/5/09: Art Walk in Ocean Springs
We got up early and decided to drive to McElroy’s on the Bayou in Ocean Springs for breakfast and it proved to be a good …
Month: September 2009
9/4/09: To the Beach in Gulfport
I had agreed to drive my mother down to Gulfport, Mississippi for her high-school reunion, so we stopped by a Starbucks in Memphis for a …
8/30/09: Breakfast at Russell’s Marina Grill
There was to be one final conference event, a brunch and lecture by Stax soul man William Bell that I would have liked to have …
8/29/09: Soul Is Waterproof
Today was my busiest speaking day at the conference, so I didn’t have time to leave the Quarter breakfast. Instead, my friend Rico Brooks and …
8/28/09: Heading Way Uptown
I decided to eat breakfast at a place called the Oak Street Cafe, which was in the far uptown neighborhood of Carrollton, so I walked …
8/27/09: Nuthin But Fire Records, Snowballs and Preservation Hall
Restaurants in the Quarter are expensive, so I drove out to a place called the River Cafe in Harahan that had received good reviews on …
8/26/09: Lean Times In Fat City
Breakfast was at Panera Bread, and then I headed out to New Orleans for the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference, but I stopped in Jackson …
8/16/09: RIP Jim Dickinson
Breakfast with Charlie Braxton and two of his sons at Broad Street Baking Company. Then I drove back to Memphis, but detoured into Water Valley …