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Ground Zero is a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, US that is co-owned by Morgan Freeman, Memphis entertainment executive Howard Stovall, and businessman Eric Meier. [1] Attorney Bill Luckett was also co-owner until his death in 2021. [2] It got its name from Clarksdale being historically referred to as "Ground Zero" for the blues.
She also played drums in local fife-and-drum bands, [2] beginning with the band led by her paternal grandfather, Sid Hemphill, in which she played snare drum and bass drum. [3] Aside from sitting in at Memphis bars a few times in the 1950s, most of her playing was done in family and informal settings, such as picnics with fife-and-drum music ...
The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street , the main entertainment area in Memphis.
Mississippi-based Newk's Eatery is planning to expand its presence in Memphis and across Tennessee. Here's what we know about the chain's plans. Why this Mississippi-based restaurant chain says ...
Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.It is characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures, and heavy emphasis on the "groove", which has been characterized as the "hypnotic boogie".
Napoleon Strickland (October 1, 1919 [1] – July 21, 2001), [2] sometimes known as Napolian Strickland, was a fife and drum blues artist, and songwriter, and vocalist specializing in country blues, specifically North Mississippi hill country blues. He also played guitar, drums, harmonica, fife, and all manner of percussion instruments.
The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group active from the mid-1920s to the late-1950s. [1] The band featured harmonica , kazoo , fiddle and mandolin or banjolin, backed by guitar , piano , washboard , washtub bass and jug .
Memphis soul, also known as the Memphis sound, is the most prominent strain of Southern soul. It is a shimmering, sultry style produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee , featuring melodic unison horn lines, organ, guitar, bass, and a driving beat on the drums.