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Blues guitarists Albert Collins, and Piney Brown, as regulars. [6] New Orleans horn players Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong were celebrated at a Cityfolk jazz concert in 2012 at Gilly's. Before his death in 1979 the R&B singer Donny Hathaway performed sold-out shows in 1976 and 1977 when the club was inside the Dayton Inn at 3rd & Ludlow. [7]
Jun. 5—Jesse Dayton is finally home after a short run on tour in Australia. "I'm just kind of trying to get over jet lag," he says. "It's a tough one to get back from."
Barth co-founded the Memphis Country Blues Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Delta blues. With the Country Blues Society, Bill produced five festivals between 1966 and 1970 featuring artists such as Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell and Fred McDowell.
Jesse Dayton is an American musician, actor and record producer from Austin, Texas best known for his guitar contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.
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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 ...
Huck Finn Festival, 2007. This is a list of bluegrass music festivals that have Wikipedia articles or are otherwise verified by an independent, reliable, published source. . This list may have some overlap with the umbrella topic list of folk festivals, and more complete overlap with list of country music festiv
The film, which is narrated by actor Eric Roberts, “reevaluates the life of the Memphis Country Blues Festival (1966-1970) through the lens of race, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the ...