Saxophone players rose in prominence, carrying the blues and jazz to the mainstream.
"Random Brevities," The Muskogee (OK) Times Democrat, Feb 14, 1923.
Abandoned Cemeteries, Serious Research, Blues Memorials since 1989
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B.B. King at Dockery Farms in the 1970s In their “Response” (vol. 50, no. 1, Spring 2019) to T. DeWayne Moore’s article “Revisiti... -
by Arne Brogger, organizer and road manager of the Memphis Blues Caravan in the 1970s, ( blog post, " The Straight Oil From The Can: T... -
The [Memphis Country] Blues Festival [was] an occasion unto itself, quite unlike any other. The aging troubadours of the first truly ... -
Sam Chatmon's Long & Hard Road by T. DeWayne Moore Sam Chatmon's memorial page Born in 1899 outside of Bolton, ... -
In 1972, McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, won his first Grammy Award, for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording for They Call Me Mu...