Duwayne Burnside Live at Foxfire Ranch, Waterford MS, 7/21/13
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, …
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Duwayne Burnside Joins The North Mississippi Allstars at @LevittShell @CTDickinson @Grammy365
To close out the Memphis Recording Academy’s 40th Anniversary concert, Luther and Cody Dickinson’s North Mississippi Allstars came on stage along with bluesman Duwayne Burnside. …
Shannon McNally (@McNally) Live at @LevittShell @Grammy365
Originally from the New York area, blues-roots singer Shannon McNally has lived a little bit of everywhere, from Austin to New Orleans, before choosing to …
Memphis Indie Vocalist Susan Marshall and Friends at the Recording Academy 40th @Grammy365 @LevittShell
Madjack Records artist Susan Marshall is yet another past president of The Recording Academy’s Memphis Chapter. Her performance at the 40th Anniversary concert at the …
West Dayton’s 14 Karat Gold Records
Cool neighborhood record stores used to be a fixture in nearly any Black neighborhood, but times are tough, and they’ve all begun to vanish from …
Live Jazz, Blues and Soul at the Greenwich
From the Jazz Club at Schwartz’s Point, I made my way over to the Greenwich on Gilbert Avenue, which is a historic-looking supper club in …
Owen Money’s Hill Country Blues on Beale Street
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 …
A Beale Street Fourth
Despite the shootings and chaos that broke out on the riverfront on July 4th, Beale Street was crowded but peaceful. There were a couple of …
Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band Wake Up the Hill Country Picnic 2013
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 …
Alvin Youngblood Hart Amplifies the Blues at the Hill Country Picnic
Up until this year’s Hill Country Picnic, every performance I have heard from Alvin Youngblood Hart has been a solo acoustic effort, a style at …