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 …
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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 …
8/15/09: Ya Heard Me Conference Day 2 in Jackson MS/Kevin Powell’s Keynote Speech
Breakfast at Primo’s in Ridgeland (always good), and then I headed out to the flea market in Pearl to look for old records and Jackson …
8/14/09: Ya Heard Me Conference in Jackson MS Day 1
Breakfast at Panera Bread in Memphis, and then I headed out to Jackson, Mississippi for the Ya Heard Me-Meanings In Hip-Hop Culture conference at Jackson …
7/7/09: Day 2 of C & M Record Pool in Mobile
Woke up to rain and thunderstorms that never seemed to let up. Ate breakfast at the Spot of Tea on Dauphin, and then made the …
7/6/09: C & M Record Pool Conference in Mobile
Drove down to Mobile for the C & M Record Pool’s Mobile Music Conference. DJ Bull got me checked into my hotel room, and then …
7/3/09: Visiting with jazz drummer Aaron Walker
My friend Aaron Walker, the jazz drummer, was in town visitng his mother, so I picked him up and we rode downtown to the Westin …
6/26/09: From Cincinnati to Knoxville
The Westin had a self-service breakfast cafe called Ingredients, which really was quite good and not as expensive as most hotel breakfasts. Then I checked …
The Death of Michael Jackson
Early in the morning, I checked out of the Kingsgate Resort, and ate breakfast at a First Watch near Florence, Kentucky so I would already …