This really cool painting of Albert King can be found in Center Alley between Union Avenue and Monroe Avenue in downtown Memphis. Although there is no attribution on it, it looks like Lamar Sorrento’s work. #MemphisRising
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The Center For Southern Folklore, Memphis
The Center For Southern Folklore is a cool blues venue and shop in downtown Memphis. It’s a great place to hear live blues, soul, jazz or gospel, enjoy a cold beverage or purchase books and CDs about Memphis music and history.
Memphis musicians performing on the stage in front of MLG&W during the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Food trucks are just beginning to be seen around Memphis, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Larry McCray live at the FedEx Blues Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/12
Son Volt, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Beale Street Music Festival 2012
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Memphis’ own MJG joins Big K.R.I.T. on stage at the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Big K.R.I.T. live at the Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis, 5/5/12