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The Ruins of Hudsonville
On my way to Holly Springs, Mississippi for a blues event, I decided to travel a slightly different way in order to check out the town of Hudsonville on Highway 7, intriguing to me as it was the place...
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Preserving the Hill Country Blues Tradition: Duwayne Burnside Live in Holly...
Think of Mississippi Blues and you are likely to think of the Delta. The long highways and crossroads, the endless flat land, broken only by the occasional bayou, small towns, juke joints and Robert...
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Celebrating Hill Country Blues at Foxfire Ranch
Fans of the unique Mississippi style of blues known as Hill Country blues are of course very familiar with Marshall County, as it was the home of both Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside, arguably the...
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Juke Joint Fest: Robert Kimbrough Sr.
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Cadillac Funk and Cedric Burnside At The Levitt AMP Summer Music Series in...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Junior Kimbrough in Holly Springs
Marshall County, Mississippi is recognized as the home of the Hill Country blues, and the home of its two greatest exponents, Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside. So it was entirely fitting that this...
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Robert Kimbrough’s Blues Yard Parties in Benton County
Benton County, Mississippi is due east of Marshall County, and was once a part of it, having been carved out of it and Tippah County by the state legislature during Reconstruction. Demographically...
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Eric Deaton Trio & Garry Burnside Live at Proud Larry’s
Although Proud Larry’s is first and foremost a rock club, Oxford, Mississippi is deep in the Mississippi Hill Country, and has been the scene of many a classic blues performance. Nearly all the greats...
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The Kimbrough Blues Legacy Lives On At Rooster’s Blues House in Oxford
Robert Kimbrough Sr. calls his style of music “cotton patch blues”, but he is the son of one of the biggest legends of what blues scholars often call Hill Country blues, Junior Kimbrough. The Hill...
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Second Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival in Holly Springs
This is the second year of the Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival, which celebrates the legacy of Junior Kimbrough and his sons David, Robert and Kinney, and this year’s festival, held on Mothers’...
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