The annual King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas is one of the United States’ major blues festivals. But time has not been kind to …
Like all of Eastern Arkansas, Helena had seen better days by the late 1970’s, but the worst was yet to come. When the Mohawk Tire …
The Oxford Blues Festival was not held on the Square this year, as I would have expected, but rather on the Grove on the Ole …
Blind Mississippi Morris performs his version of a Slim Harpo tune at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/4/13
Blind Mississippi Morris played the Bristerfest last weekend, and was at it again this weekend at the Beale Street Music Festival downtown. Memphis was once …
Blind Mississippi Morris performs for the crowd at Bristerfest in Overton Park after the rain ended on Saturday, 4/27/13
Clarksdale/Memphis traditional bluesman Blind Mississippi Morris performs at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park during the first day of Bristerfest in Memphis, 4/27/13. Of interest …
Clarksdale native Blind Mississippi Morris lives in North Memphis, and is just about the only traditional country bluesman active in Memphis these days. He has …
Traditional bluesman Blind Mississippi Morris performs on the Southern Comfort Blues Shack stage at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/12
