On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

Ask Jad Tariq to name a few of his favorite musicians and singers, and he’ll quickly reel off a list of names, both popular and obscure: Big Joe Turner, Louis Prima, Oscar Moore, Floyd Smith, Billy ...

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...

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 the ...

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Back in 1984, it began rather humbly as “The Blues Amateur Contest,” a small free showcase held at the New Daisy theater, part of an ongoing series of concerts called The Beale Street Rambles. But 40 ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Blues Foundation will be hosting a Hologram Interactive exhibit - only the second in one in the nation - beginning in May. The exhibit promises to offer visitors a ...