Thursday Night Jazz With Ed Finney & Jeremy Shrader at The Cove
Jazz is getting increasingly harder to find in Memphis these days, and if that wasn’t bad enough, it recently got voted the least-popular genre of …
Concerts
The Soulful Sounds of Tawanna Campbell at the Afterthought in Little Rock
I was really not familiar with Tawanna Campbell at all, but I was in Little Rock on business, and saw that she was performing at …
Fun With A Purpose at the Tate Street Block Party
Tate Street, like all east-west streets in Memphis, is really an avenue, but it has always been called Tate Street by those who live there …
Cool Runnings with Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Roots Of A Rebellion at the Hi-Tone
Memphis has almsot no Caribbean expatriate community at all, and as a result, little Caribbean music either. What Jamaican music comes through the city is …
Celebrating the Life of B. B. King in Indianola
Each year in B. B. King’s hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, deep in the historic Delta region, the great bluesman returned in late May for an …
Joyce Jones, Kenny Brown, R. B. Stone and Destination Up at Foxfire Ranch
On Mothers’ Day afternoon, I saw that Joyce Jones, whom I had seen at Sherena Boyce’s party in Como a month ago, would be performing …
Launching the Americana Music Triangle at Club 21 in Helena, Arkansas
Live blues is common in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which makes its rarity in neighboring Helena, Arkansas all the stranger, but Helena just hasn’t seen the renaissance …
Robert Randolph and the Family Band at the Beale Street Music Festival
I had not planned on going to the Beale Street Music Festival this year, since I wasn’t particularly pleased with the line-up, and also I …
Cool Runnings With The Slackers and Chinese Connection Dub Embassy at the Hi-Tone
Reggae and other Jamaican music styles are not particularly common in Memphis, so when there are occasions to see reggae bands, I usually jump at …
Honoring the Legacy of Ardent’s John Fry and John Hampton at the Levitt Shell
Although the Levitt Shell season doesn’t start until May, there is usually an earlier special music event or two during the warm weather in April, …