Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues

Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008

Mmmmm, the meningitis killin' me Mmmmm, the meningitis killin' me I'm sittin' not standi

AllMusic’s Favorite Blues Albums of 2008

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008

From the 8th through the 19th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2008. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to blues, and several points in-between, culminating in a Whole Note feature that [...]

God’s Bailout

AutomoBlog.net (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008

What you see here is a scene from The Greater Grace Temple, an 8,000 member Pentecostal church in NW Detroit. That would be three SUVs, hybrid SUVs at that, up there on the alter with (I’m assuming) Pastor Bishop Charles H. Ellis, III, and the full choir. There’s one hybrid SUV from each of the [...]

Another fabulous day

CowPuppy Ranch (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008

And another perfect non-date. Spent the day in San Francisco. Wandered around the Lower Haight. Had lunch at Memphis Minnie's . Drove through the city. Almost started a fight with a guy driving a white Toyota Corolla. Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge. Walked out to the first tower. Drove up Cozelman Road. Hiked to the top and sat looking out over the city as the sun was setting. Another leisurely drive...

sandy dillon: “my whole point is to reach out to others who see life a little differently”

wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008

words in edgeways with sandy dillon I’m a firm believer in judging an album by its sleeve, no matter what my mother told me, but Sandy Dillon had me fooled from the start. Picking up Electric Chair, her first album for UK independent label One Little Indian, purely on impulse - a bargain at £2 – [...]

Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks

Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008

This is one of the songs that Led Zeppelin covered and for which they never provided proper attribution (nor royalties) to. This is an interesting conversation and documentation of Zepp's blatant ripoffs. Howard Stern aside, if you are into this kind of thing, you might appreciate. The comments are telling in their own way. They range from disgust for LP to the other extreme of almost calling "blasphemy"...

Fifteen for you, from me, from them.

The 405 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008

So the explosions have died down after fireworks night, today is especially grey and bleak and i’m still a little sleepy from staying up til 2:30am writing a proposal for my art project. But I felt nostalgic so i’m gladly sharing with you all fifteen songs from some of my favourite mixtapes made for me [...]

Museum is a tribute to a King

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.

• Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King - Seattle Times
• Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King - The Washington Times
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Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008

News Stories for Power acoustic amps. Tribute acts in town, as Dylan devotees Highway Revisited and psilocybic Deadheads Cubensis hit House of Blues. Both bands ll have fresh EPs in hand. Or you can dance off the sand at Canes with local Latin jazz groove acts B Side Players and Agua [...]

Kansas Joe McCoy

Arthur Clewley's Diary (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008

back soon, in the meantime here's Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, without the drums at the bottom of the stairs

Memphis

Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

Twelve hours to Memphis. Mrs. doesn’t do highways well, much less endless bumper to bumper, so I was way over on hours behind the wheel, just cruising on coffee and trail mix from 4 am to 4 pm. Been in frantic Twitter with peeps plus watching weather sites for last couple of hours. The 10 [...]

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: A Short History of "When the Levee Breaks"

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" builds upon a former song. In this particular case, the Delta blues classic of the same name created by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. On Saturday, a million citizens fled Louisiana for safer ground, after Hurricane Gustav metamorphosed into a Category 4 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. It is scheduled to slam into the U.S. almost exactly three years after...

A Short History of 'When the Levee Breaks'

Listening Post (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008

On Saturday, a million citizens fled Louisiana for safer ground, after Hurricane Gustav metamorphosed into a Category 4 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. It is scheduled to slam into the U.S. almost exactly three years after Hurricane Katrina did...

The History of Memphis Blues Music

Article Archive (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

This article discusses about the origin of the blues music in Memphis

Heroes of Memphis Soul Music

Article Archive (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

This article discusses about the geniuses who helped create the music of Memphis soul.