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 July 9, 2010
Regardless of our ages, we Memphians have had Elvis in our presence as long as we can remember. I know folks with Elvis tattoos who weren’t even born in 1977, the year Elvis died. Let’s face it, the boy from Tupelo will live on forever in the hearts and minds of millions (maybe billions). And [...]