Duwayne Burnside Brings The Hill Country To Railgarten
Railgarten, in the Midtown neighborhood of Memphis, is the Bluff City’s most Austinish night club, featuring indoor and outdoor stages and seating, as well as …
Hamburgers
A Great Burger And A Taste of Shreveport’s Musical History
It was my last day in Shreveport, and I wanted a hamburger. I resisted the thought of Twisted Root Burger Company at first, because I …
Great Food In An Elegant Setting at New Albany’s The Rainey
The abrupt closure of Bankhead Bicycle Club in New Albany, Mississippi a few years back left a fine-dining gap in that town, but fine dining …
Celebrating the Music of the Hill Country at Waterford, Mississippi
One of the best things about our slow return to normalcy has been the reappearance of the festivals we missed in 2020. The North Mississippi …
Duwayne Burnside Live at the W. C. Handy Music Festival in Henderson, Kentucky
Early on Saturday morning, June 19th, I headed to a restaurant called the Merry-Go-Round on North Fares Avenue in Evansville, Indiana. Fares was once Highway …
An Evansville Sunset at The Rooftop, and Eric Gales Live in Henderson, Kentucky
Duwayne Burnside’s biggest show of 2021 was at the W. C. Handy Music Festival in Henderson, Kentucky in June, a festival which is billed as …
A Friday Evening in Jackson, Tennessee
I was supposed to meet a friend for dinner in Brownsville, so I headed out Highway 70 from Bartlett, and stopped in Mason, Tennessee to …
A Delta Journey: Gourmet Coffee in Jackson’s New District
Growing up, my family used to meet in October for family reunions in Jackson, Mississippi. It was the “big city” in Mississippi; it had a …
A Delta Journey: Getting On Top Of Things At Vicksburg’s 10 South
Rooftop restaurants used to be fairly common, circa 1973 or so, but have become far rarer in the modern era. Memphis, for example, does not …