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 January 12, 2011
I wanted to do this post and video to coincide with Elvis’ birthday, January 8, but I got a little behind on production. It’s another “Cooking with Joe” episode featuring a Nutella-enhanced, peanut butter and banana “crêpe”, kind of in the the vein of the famous Graceland fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. I don’t [...]
by Joe Spake on August 18, 2010
For the 33 years since Elvis Presley‘s death in 1977, there has been a fan commemoration at Graceland, with thousands of fans making the pilgrimage to be near the hallowed ground of Graceland and Elvis’ grave. The quiet march by thousands of candle holding fans up the long Graceland driveway on the eve of the [...]