Strange Winter Rituals on a Busy Lundi Gras
Lundi Gras, the Monday before Mardi Gras Day, is basically a holiday in New Orleans, and thus ordinary things like getting breakfast can become a …
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To New Orleans Across The Mississippi Delta
Originally, I was to have headed out to New Orleans on Saturday, which would have enabled me to go to Houma for a parade with …
Soulful Sounds of Bird Williams and The Lyric Band at Mr. P’s Hot Wings in Southwind
The nightlife space at 4202 Hacks Cross Road in the Southwind area of Memphis has been through many incarnations, from its opening as The Daq …
Sitting On Top Of The World at Little Rock’s Agasi 7 Bar & Kitchen
A lady friend and I had decided to drive to Little Rock to see the young blues sensation Akeem Kemp, and we needed to eat …
A Fife-and-Drum Workshop in Brownsville, Tennessee
Fife and drum music once flourished in West Tennessee, but similar to what happened in Georgia, disappeared rapidly in the 1970’s. The last evidence we …
The Sun Also Rises (And So Do The Biscuits)
2017 had its ups and downs, but one of the better stories in Memphis was the opening of a lot of new restaurants, the vast …
Hungry? Head to the Liquor Store!
If a person said that they were going to the liquor store to eat, you might think they were a little out of it, to …
Celebrating Tate County’s Blues Legacy at Senatobia Blues and Brews
On November 4, 2017, Senatobia launched its inaugural Blues and Brews festival in Gabbert Park, in unusually warm and wet weather. In fact, dense fog …
Great Breakfasts and a Taste of History at The Brunswick Kitchen
I had been hearing about a new restaurant that had opened in the old Brunswick community along Brunswick Road, and I had even ventured out …
R. L. Boyce, Lightnin Malcolm & Jimbo Mathus at Clarksdale’s Deep Blues Festival
Robert Palmer’s movie and book “Deep Blues” was instrumental in introducing the world to the Hill Country Blues style and its stars, R. L. Burnside …