Monday, April 10, 2017

Marty Stuart to create "Marty Stuart Congress of Country Music" in his home town

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The Neshoba Democrat reports Marty Stuart plans to create the "Marty Stuart Congress of Country Music" in Philadelphia, Mississipp...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Jackson band's contribution to early hip-hop

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Jacob Threadgill writes a funktastic piece for the Clarion Ledger about "Get Up and Dance" by Freedom. Freedom featured on drums t...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

RIP T-Model Ford

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For thirty years, Bluesman T-Model Ford rocked the blues world from his home in Greenville, Mississippi. A short career for someone who died...
Friday, May 8, 2009

All The Way To Memphis

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The Mississippi Blues Trail officially crossed state lines today at the Rock 'n' Soul Museum at the Fed Ex Forum on Beale Street in...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Como's Mississippi Fred McDowell

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Fred McDowell lived in Tennessee until he was nearly forty. But as proof that a man can accomplish a lot after his thirtieth birthday, McDow...
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Pontiac Blues

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General Motors announced this past week that after the end of this year they no longer will produce Pontiacs. The muscular, gas-guzzling, V-...
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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Pinetop Perkins has another date with Grammy

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Tonight there's a great reason to watch the 51st annual Grammy Awards on CBS. "Pinetop Perkins and Friends" is one of five nom...
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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Shake Rag

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Today would have been Elvis Presley's 74th birthday, and much as his mother Gladys clings to a young Elvis in the photo above, hundreds ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A Christmas Cooke

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"You Send Me" Daniel Wolff's definitive biography of Sam Cooke begins the second chapter with a description of the birth of...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

A Christmas Staple

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They called him "pops", out of respect. But he was born Roebuck Staples near Winona, Mississippi on a plantation with 13 older bro...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas With A Milkman

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William Ferris was a 30-year-old man when this photo was taken back in 1972. By that time he already was a veteran blues researcher and sch...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Santa Claus is Back In Town

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It's not easy being King. In September 1957 Elvis Presley went into a Hollywood recording studio to cut a Christmas album. After three d...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Merry Christmas, Pretty Baby

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How might music history be different if Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins wasn't such a nice guy? Born in Belzoni, Ms. in 1913, the...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Blues For Christmas

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Born in 1917 near Clarksdale, John Lee Hooker had 10 older brothers and sisters. His first instrument was an inner tube nailed to the barn. ...