Blues In The Alley At A Crossroads?
https://goo.gl/photos/9bUDzbafHkKmwGFS9 Marshall County, Mississippi and its county seat of Holly Springs are ground zero when it comes to the subgenre known as Hill Country blues. …
Festivals
Closing Out The Blues In The Alley Series With Gerod Rayborn
https://goo.gl/photos/Ad45GbtQVmeqNHoJA https://goo.gl/photos/cKtyXbqWwCtxFnwd6 https://goo.gl/photos/F44tkPLnwV9NTj6j8 https://goo.gl/photos/dH9NMTTd77E3dfb1A https://goo.gl/photos/eL2EkR1krBRJXUYi8 https://goo.gl/photos/keQG2Tx3KGkVKn4KA Although this year’s Blues In The Alley line-up of performers was largely disappointing, to say the least, the weekly …
Throwing Down at the Home Place Near Como, Mississippi
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Celebrating the Launch of Royal Records in South Memphis
https://goo.gl/photos/QvjtGqwjvdT4YDhr5 In 1958, record store owner Joe Coughi of Poplar Tunes in Memphis decided to start a record label, and he named it Hi Records, …
Al Kapone & Frayser Boy Live at 901 Fest
https://goo.gl/photos/DLvbHZARAs6qKHK47 Memphians reacted with understandable sadness to the news last year that Memphis in May was eliminating the Sunset Symphony, which had been one of …
Juke Joint Fest: Cedric Burnside & Trenton Ayers
https://goo.gl/photos/eBLqjHjqcNWfuMsC6 https://goo.gl/photos/JATvcUY3U8kiCqub7 https://goo.gl/photos/DHvk3BKxcTGDkteN8 https://goo.gl/photos/5DCMeocig77wy6XP9 https://goo.gl/photos/MnEoDGawbuix84Q89 This year’s Juke Joint Fest culminated with a late Saturday evening show at the Delta Theatre featuring Cedric Burnside and …
Juke Joint Fest: Roosevelt Roberts Jr
https://goo.gl/photos/gnbsnoMSixTCe1Mu9 https://goo.gl/photos/AuQmutRvNZuDVFvXA https://goo.gl/photos/6RCT2skAS3PkYS546 https://goo.gl/photos/s3X4shn3AE2RUTtD8 https://goo.gl/photos/SDcDTVaa7jQsChuB8 The tiny town of Bentonia, Mississippi has more than its fair share of blues musicians, and one of them is …
Juke Joint Fest: The Baby Blues Drumline
https://goo.gl/photos/C9KRdHurceoenQpr9 Although not an official act on any of the festival stages, the Memphis-based Baby Blues Drumline is a popular crowd pleaser at the annual …
Juke Joint Festival: Andre Otha Evans Fife & Drum Band
Black fife and drum bands were once ubiquitous in the rural South, but time has not been kind to this style of music, a sort …
A Preview Party For The Juke Joint Fest at Tin Roof Memphis
Every April, the Juke Joint Festival takes over Clarksdale, Mississippi, bringing blues fans from all over the world to the small city in the Mississippi …