Beale Street – the delta review

Juke Joint Love in Whitehaven at the VIP

John Shaw June 27, 2025 June 27, 2025

Memphis, Tennessee is a fairly common destination for tourists, and Beale Street is the usual attraction that many want to see. Memphis does a considerable …

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Earl the Pearl’s Authentic Blues on Historic Beale Street

John Shaw June 15, 2024 June 15, 2024

Memphis bills itself as the Home of the Blues, and markets Beale Street as “the street where blues was born.” But since the street’s redevelopment …

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Great Memphis Soul and Blues on a Beale Street Sunday Evening

John Shaw September 18, 2023 September 18, 2023

Although I don’t usually venture out on Sunday nights due to the Monday start of the work week, I was invited down to B. B. …

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A Preview Party For The Juke Joint Fest at Tin Roof Memphis

John Shaw June 4, 2016 June 4, 2016

Every April, the Juke Joint Festival takes over Clarksdale, Mississippi, bringing blues fans from all over the world to the small city in the Mississippi …

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The Rebirth of Jazz on Beale Street at The Blue Note: A Tribute to Emerson Able

John Shaw July 4, 2015 July 4, 2015

Jazz is the forgotten piece of the Memphis music puzzle. People who are familiar with Isaac Hayes, Al Green or Otis Redding have likely never …

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Record Store Day in Memphis

John Shaw April 20, 2015 April 20, 2015

Record Store Day is a worldwide holiday held in April to call attention to an endangered species, the neighborhood record store. Record companies release all …

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Rodney Tate and All-Star Soul and Blues at Memphis’ B. B. King’s

John Shaw February 20, 2015 February 20, 2015

People who know me know that I’m not a huge fan of modern-day Beale Street. In its current garish, Disneyland-like iteration, it seems like a …

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The Ghost Town Blues Band Celebrating the Release of “Hard Road To Hoe” at the Rum Boogie Cafe

John Shaw February 8, 2015 February 8, 2015

The Ghost Town Blues Band is a group of young Memphians that first garnered a lot of attention during the International Blues Challenge a couple …

New Ghost Town Blues Band Single “Seventeen” From The Upcoming Album “Hard Road To Hoe”

John Shaw February 3, 2015 February 8, 2015

Memphis’ own Ghost Town Blues Band plays far more than blues, and at the January 22nd release party for their new self-produced album “Hard Road To Hoe” at the Rum Boogie Cafe, they unveiled the single “Seventeen”, an absolute jewel of a soulful rock ballad, reminiscent of New Orleans band The Radiators. Purchase the album on iTunes here

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A Drumline on Beale Street

John Shaw November 11, 2014 November 11, 2014

When Memphis rapper Tune C and I headed downtown for the album release party for Frayser Boy’s new album Not No Moe, we heard a …