by Joe Spake on July 13, 2011
If you want to get to the roots of what Robert Palmer was talking about in Deep Blues, you have to be at this year’s Sunflower River Blues and Gospel festival, August 12-14, in Blues Mecca, Clarksdale, Mississippi. If you are looking for what some call the blues, as played on $1500 guitars on Beale [...]
by Joe Spake on September 5, 2010
Blind Mississippi Morris (1), originally uploaded by SouthernFolklore. Blind Mississippi Morris closed out the Comcast Folklore Hall Stage at the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival, produced by the Center for Southern Folklore, last night. There is much much more Music, Dance, Storytelling, Cooking, Food and Kids’ Activities today (September 5). Here’s the Schedule for today’s [...]
by Joe Spake on June 14, 2009
Thumbing through a Rolling Stone the other day in the barber shop and ran across this year’s list of music festivals. Memphis is probably best known for the Beale Street Music Festival which kicks off Memphis in Mud May every year, but there 3 fine festivals close by that bring in music fans from all [...]