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R. L. Boyce Brings The Hill Country To New Orleans

John Shaw February 19, 2017 February 19, 2017

It was perhaps a strange night for Hill Country blues in New Orleans. It was raining heavily. Mardi Gras parades had led to road closures …

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Breeze Cayolle and The Mighty Souls Brass Band at Lafayette’s

John Shaw February 16, 2017 February 16, 2017

Lafayette’s Music Room is a reincarnation of one of Memphis’ best-beloved music venues of the 1970’s, but the latter-day version has something of a New …

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Leo “Bud” Welch and Friends at Red’s in Clarksdale

John Shaw January 30, 2017 January 30, 2017

After the screening of the last film of this year’s Clarksdale Film Festival (which was appropriately enough a documentary about Leo “Bud” Welch), my girlfriend …

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Great Music Documentaries and Live Music at the Clarksdale Film Festival

John Shaw January 30, 2017 January 30, 2017

The annual Clarksdale Film Festival is a rather unusual film festival. For one thing it is held in the Mississippi Delta city of Clarksdale, which …

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Endings and Beginnings With Duwayne Burnside at The Shelter on Van Buren

John Shaw January 19, 2017 January 19, 2017

Duwayne Burnside had played The Shelter on Van Buren in Oxford, Mississippi earlier in the fall, but I had not been able to attend, so …

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A Death In The Delta: Tallulah’s Tragic Decline

John Shaw January 11, 2017 January 12, 2017

In my childhood, Interstate 20 east ended at Waverly, Louisiana, which I remember as a railroad crossing with a store (where we would stop for …

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Across the Arkansas Delta

John Shaw December 29, 2016 December 29, 2016

Although the Mississippi Delta is better known, there is also an Arkansas Delta, wide and wild and if anything, more mysterious than the other. More …

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A Night of Hill Country Blues at LR’s White Water Tavern

John Shaw December 29, 2016 December 29, 2016

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Celebrating The Legacy of R. L. Burnside at Hernando’s Front Porch Jubilee

John Shaw November 26, 2016 November 26, 2016

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A King Biscuit Daybook: Cherry Street

John Shaw November 3, 2016 November 3, 2016

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