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Rooster Blues is an American independent record label founded in 1980. The label is dedicated to blues music from the Mississippi Delta. Rooster Blues was co-founded by Jim O'Neal in Chicago , and initially released 14 albums by South Side blues musicians.
Since 1977, the Orpheum has been the Mid-South home of touring Broadway productions. The Orpheum's two venues also host performances by Ballet Memphis, various concerts, comedians, a summer movie series, a family series of educational programs, and local cultural and community events such as Memphis in May, International Blues Challenge, and special Elvis Week events.
Memphis Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1938: Document "The Crowing Rooster" / "Leaving Home Blues" [11] 2001 Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton: Revenant "The Crowing Rooster" [12] 2007 When the Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues, Rare Cuts 1926-41: JSP "The Crowing Rooster" / "Leaving Home Blues" [13]
A trumpet player and composer, W.C. Handy — who titled his 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues" — was born in Florence, Alabama, but became famous after relocating to Memphis in 1909 and ...
More than 158 acts from 32 states and 12 countries will take part in the 2024 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music.
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the original location of Stax Records.Stax launched and supported the careers of artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Albert King, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Jean Knight, Mable ...
The museum offers a comprehensive Memphis music experience beginning with the rural field hollers and porch music of the sharecroppers in the 30s highlighting the urban influences of Beale Street in the 1940s, radio, Sun Records and Sam Phillips in the 1950s, the heyday of Stax, Hi Records and soul music in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the music's influence ...