Thursday night, August 1, 2013, the Southeast Ballroom of the Memphis Hilton was the scene for the Jus Blues Music Awards, an annual event sponsored …
At any blues event, the arrival of Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band holds the crowd’s attention, and nowhere is this …
I had never heard of Leo Welch before yesterday, but when the elderly man got on stage, he announced that he had been born in …
Memphis drummer Michael Mosby returned to Memphis after a stint in Atlanta, and has since put together one of the city’s best bands, the Hard …
On Sunday, July 21st, I was driving back from Atlanta to Memphis, and while I stopped at O’Henry’s Coffee in Homewood, Alabama for a latte, …
Memphis soul revivalists The Bo-Keys have played a huge role in the rebirth of interest in the classic Memphis sound, and they have frequently provided …
The Hi Rhythm Section plays the standard “Soul Serenade” at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Memphis chapter of The Recording Academy at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park, Saturday, 7/13/13
Hearing blues on Beale Street is rare enough, and hearing Hill Country blues is almost unheard of, so when I heard somebody playing the North …
Sharde Thomas is the granddaughter of Otha Turner, and leads her grandfathers’ Rising Star Fife and Drum Band from Gravel Springs,in Tate County, Mississippi, which …
Oxford-based alt-country band Blue Mountain has broken up before and then reunited, so their fans are hopeful that the band’s end is not forever, but …
