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This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner discusses the love of music which formed a fake band we can all believe in.
Landmark concert venues, museums, and music trails around the South continue to tell the region’s ever-changing sonic story.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made a big impression after bursting upon the scene. Indeed, Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, ...
Sometimes the best things come in modest packages—a small diner at a famous intersection, serving cheeseburgers that locals ...
Ara Rubyan This unassuming yellow building with its humble wooden picnic tables might not look like much from the outside, but inside those doors lies a Mississippi culinary institution that has fed ...
Becoming Led Zeppelin, which you can watch with a Netflix subscription, is a fantastic documentary. While I do admit I wish ...
It's a massive task for anyone to try and make the blues sound fresh, but Stevie Ray Vaughan got to the other side through ...
Hall of Fame class includes a Stax hitmaker, blues icon, broadcasting executive and more. Here is a closer look at the six inductees.
The Memphis Music Hall of Fame announced its latest group of inductees on June 10, confirming a class that includes Stax Records hitmaker Johnnie Taylor, blues icon Robert Johnson, guitarist ...
In the museum, the story that most intrigued me was that of Robert Johnson, one of the greatest of the early Blues musicians. He is said to have met the Devil at a crossroads around midnight and ...
When he was a rising star in the 1940s, he adopted the nickname “Beale Street Blues Boy,” which was shortened to Blues Boy and later B.B. King. He died in 2015 at age 89, but his legacy lives on.
Robert Mugge's new film "Deep Roots: The Art and Music of Bill Steber and Friends" premieres in Memphis during Blues Music Awards week. The free premiere takes place May 7 at Blues City Cafe on ...