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A 1920s blues duo, Beale Street Sheiks, comprising Frank Stokes and Dan Sane [12] The song "Beale Street Blues", written by W. C. Handy, contains the oldest known references to Beale Street. Joni Mitchell's song "Furry Sings the Blues" is a lamentation of the redevelopment of Beale Street in the late 1960s.
"Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was named after Beale Street , a center of African-American music in Memphis, Tennessee , and was published in 1917. Background
In 1991, Beale Street developer John Elkington recruited King to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club in Memphis and in 1994, they launched a second club at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 but closed on April 29, 2018.
"Beale Street Blues" (1916), written as a farewell to Beale Street of Memphis, which was named Beale Avenue until the song's popularity caused it to be changed "Long Gone John (from Bowling Green)", about a famous bank robber "Chantez-Les-Bas (Sing 'Em Low)", a tribute to the Creole culture of New Orleans
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]
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?
Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer. She was known as "The Queen of Beale Street" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years. She had a successful touring and recording career, and appeared in a number of films. [2]
He successfully recruited B. B. King to Memphis in 1991 to open the original B. B. King's Blues Club, and led development of the W. C. Handy Performing Arts Park on Beale Street, named for the musician and composer widely regarded as the "Father of the Blues." By the mid-1990s, Beale Street was drawing thousands of visitors each year.