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#034 Blind Mississippi Morris-Rooster Blues.MOV (by jdoggtn7)

Blind Mississippi Morris performs “Rooster Blues” at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack during the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12

St. Louis’ Funky Butt Brass Band performs at the St. Louis Convention and Visitors’ Bureau Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12

Memphis Skyline, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12

Traditional bluesman Blind Mississippi Morris performs on the Southern Comfort Blues Shack stage at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/12

John Hiatt, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12

Barbara & The Browns – I’m Gonna Start A War (by SimplyGrandMusic)

Memphis’ soul legends Barbara and the Browns are a great way to start the week! Originally recording at Stax, by the late 1960’s they were recording at MGM Sounds of Memphis with Dan Greer over on Rayner Street in South Memphis. As you may have guessed, Sounds of Memphis is now the House of Blues Recording Studio after a brief stint as Kiva. 

The Beale Street Music Festival is of course a marketer’s dream, and plenty of companies take advantage of it. #BSMF12

On the stretch of Beale Street leading to the Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis Light Gas & Water set up a stage for local performers to help raise money for utility assistance, and food trucks (which are just beginning to appear in Memphis) set up to serve festival-goers.Â