A Wet And Busy Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale
I usually enjoy myself quite a bit at the annual Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, but this year’s festival was both wet and harried, as …
Restaurants
A Perfect Meal At One of America’s Oldest Restaurants
After two performances in Belzoni, I was thoroughly hungry and somewhat tired. Belzoni had only one sit-down restaurant as far as I could see, but …
A Broad Avenue Art Walk and Coffee Cupping at Vice and Virtue
It was one of the first warm Friday evenings of the year, and the first Broad Avenue Art Walk of the year, so when I …
A Busy Night for Live Music in Como, Mississippi
Sherena Boyce, daughter of the great Hill Country bluesman R. L. Boyce had told me that Deandre Walker and his band the Mississippi Boys were …
Next Stop-Great Coffee at Dyersburg’s Bus Stop
Bus travel is not exactly what it used to be, and downtown bus stops are largely a thing of the past, leaving cities struggling to …
Pig Out at Pig N Out in Halls, Tennessee
I had spent the better part of a Friday afternoon in Ripley, Tennessee, doing research on Black fife and drum bands at the office of …
Headstone Dedication for the Late Memphis Bluesman Charlie Burse
It had rained all day, but T. DeWayne Moore of the Mount Zion Memorial Fund had sent me an invitation to the dedication of a …
A Friday Night in Nashville
After a day of research on my thesis in the Tennessee State Archives, I decided to enjoy my Friday night in Nashville. I headed first …
A Rainy Night in the New Nashville
I drove up to Nashville on a Thursday night so that I could spend Friday in the Tennessee State Archives doing research for my masters’ …
Coastal Cuisine at Cooper-Young’s Elwood’s Shells
Since the closure of Anderton’s Restaurant in Midtown some years ago, Memphis has had a noticeable lack of decent seafood restaurants, and several attempts at …