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Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music.
Rum Boogie Café is a night club on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the main venues for the International Blues Challenge and is the favored performance location of singer James Govan. [1] [2] It was named "Blues Club of the Year" by the Blues Foundation in 2007. [3] [4]
"Beale Street Blues" "juxtaposes the 12-bar blues form with an 8-bar counter-theme". [1] The song was published in 1917. [ 1 ] Difficulty in securing a good publishing deal meant that Handy published it himself.
In October 2023, Memphis in May said it was suspending its long-running Beale Street Music Festival. Where do things stand with the music fest now?
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.
Victor Mac (born Victor Macoggi on January 31, 1967) who is better known as Little Victor, The Beale Street Blues Bopper, and also DJ Mojo Man, is an Italian-American blues and roots singer, guitarist and harmonica player, as well as a record collector, musicologist, entertainer, disc jockey and record producer.
Patient zero of the Delta blues. Mentor to Charley Patton, the first blues star, who mentored or influenced Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Pops Staples. Sloan is a ghost.
The latest live performance album by James Govan and the Boogie Blues Band was released in 1999, entitled A Night on Beale. This commemorated 10 years of performing on Beale Street. Rum Boogie themselves claim that their commitment to Memphis music 7 days a week makes Beale Street "Home of the Blues, Birthplace of Rock n Roll". [6]