Tag: Memphis

The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.

An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released “Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.”

As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.

Essayist Zandria F. Robinson considers the festivities of #MLK50.

The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.

How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.

In 2008, Vanity Fair published a story about a guitar salesman named Steven Schein, who found a photograph of Robert Johnson, the world’s most influential Bluesman, for sale on eBay for $25. The photo was mislabeled “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar B.B. King???”. Only two photos of Johnson had been publicly released. The article is about […]