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Month: <span>May 2012</span>
Month: May 2012

Beale Street Music Festival sunset, Memphis, 5/6/12

The Blues Tent is the only place in the Beale Street Music Festival where fans have access to the Mississippi River, and in the late evening, beautiful sunsets like this one go great with good blues music. 

Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite performing at the FedEx Blues Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/6/12

Michael Franti & Spearhead, Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/6/12

Pastor Troy – The Last Outlaw (by SelectOHits)

Pastor Troy’s new album “The Last Outlaw” coming 6-19-12.

Contains these bangin’ snippets:
1. Shut the Club Down
2. That Chevy Thang
3. Everything That’s on My Mind
4. Baby Mama Drama
5. The Last Outlaw

Visit http://www.pastortroy.me for further info

#026 Kenny Brown & Duwayne Burnside-Rollin & Tumblin.MOV (by jdoggtn7)

Kenny Brown and Duwayne Burnside perform the Hill Country blues standard “Rollin & Tumblin” at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack at the Beale Street Music Festival in 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: http://devildownrecords.com/