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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.
Renderings for the Blues Note Hotel in Downtown Memphis. The mixed-use development campus will include 191-room hotel, 65-unit apartment building and a boutique hotel. The site is located along Dr ...
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. In 1986, O'Neal moved the label to Clarksdale, Mississippi and began focusing on the area's Delta blues performers. [1]
Many great points of historical interest in Memphis reside in this area. One is the National Civil Rights Museum. The others include the Blues Hall of Fame and the historic restaurant the Arcade, located on the south corner of South Main and G.E. Patterson. It is the oldest coffee shop and one of the oldest family owned restaurants in Memphis.
In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop ...
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 ...
The song is an autobiographical account of Cash's unpleasant childhood. Cash has attributed his inspiration for this song as Home of the Blues record shop on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, which operated from the late 1940's until the mid 1970's. He used to hang out there, buy records and meet other musicians including the owner Ruben Cherry.
More than 158 acts from 32 states and 12 countries will take part in the 2024 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.