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Junior is no longer with us, may he rest in peace, but members of his family will be performing this weekend at the North Mississippi Hill Country picnic. David Kimbrough will play tomorrow (Saturday) at 3:00. Taylor Grocery Band, which features Junior Kimbrough’s son Kinney Kimbrough on [...]
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Jamie Posey of Rocket 88
1. The Tangents - Live at Syd and Harry’s
- “Mississippi’s House Band”…enough said
2. Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
- Great “Sunday Driving” music
3. Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck
- If you are guitar player, you have to have this. Very hard to find though. Out of print.
4. [...]
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Our friends at The Local Voice have just finished the newest issue. This weeks issue includes a shout out to my fellow Nafoomers at TheOxfordSquare.com.
Download and Read: The Local Voice issue no. 31 PDF
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Jimbo Mathis and the Starlite Wranglers will be playing the 2nd Annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic this weekend. Click here for details.
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This video is an extract from Blues: The Road to Memphis.
Bobby Rush will be playing the 2nd Annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic this weekend. Click here for details.
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Other than the Hill Country Picnic this weekend, Goshen’s Wednesday night show at Parrish’s is what I’m looking most forward to this week. They use Blues/Punk/Rockabilly as their descriptors on Myspace, and I can go along with that. In an attempt to be hip, I’ll call them Punkabilly Blues.
Goshen is a part of the Frogville Records family based in [...]
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Two Stick’s Summer Schedule has been updated. Click here for the newest schedule.
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Click here for the North Mississippi Allstars’ Myspace.
The Allstars and the Fife and Drum Band will both be playing the 2nd Annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic this weekend. Click here for details.
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I asked some of Oxford’s musicians what albums they are listening to these days.
John Barrett of The PF Flyers
1. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
- Good to see that they’re bringing back the rock. “Rag and Bone” and “Conquest” are my personal favorites on the record.
2. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
- Top-notch mashup [...]
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This video is from the documentary You See Me Laughin’ (2002). You can pick it up at Off Sqare Books in Oxford or click here to buy it at Amazon.
Click here for the details of this weekend’s 2nd Annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic.
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Wednesday’s thought process went like this: “Who would I like to feature with the Video of the Day today? Ooh, how about John Prine? Isn’t he coming to Jackson later this year? Maybe we should go to that. I don’t know….that 2 hour drive. <<searched for John Prine videos>> Cool, one with Iris Dement. I [...]
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Click here for Feist’s Myspace.
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Click here for John Prine’s Myspace.
Click here for Iris DeMent’s web site.
The John Prine and Iris Dement show at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson, MS, on August 24 should be amazing. A few orchestra level seats are left. Click here for tickets.
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“When they asked me to do a video, I said I would on two conditions: One, my brother Pickens has got to be in it, cause he’s my brother. And two, if Jackie Sherrill is there, I’m out. You understand me!? I’m out if that snake Sherrill shows up. At that [...]
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