Sing All Kinds | Memphis FlyerPosted by Chris Davis on Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Guitars at half mast, please. Billy Lee Riley, the Sun Studio rockabilly artist who recorded atomic age classics such as "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot" is dead. It was recently reported that Riley, who had been in poor health since taking a bad fall in 2005, was suffering from the final stages of terminal cancer.
On August 30th, there will be a memorial show in Newport, Arkansas, featuring Sonny Burgess and the Pacers, WS Holland and his band, Travis Wammack, Carl Mann, Smoochy Smith, Ace Cannon and his band, Jr. Rogers, Warren Crow, J.M. VanEaton, Dale Hawkins, C.W. Gattin, and the Blues Brothers Band.
We'll have more to say about this influential and under-sung Memphis artist, in the meantime here's a clip from a live performance in 2003.
August 4, 2009
Guitars at half mast, please. Billy "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll" Lee "Red Hot" Riley is dead | Memphis Flyer
Links to blues- folk-art- museums, festivals in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, United States, a broad @mrjyn
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Here are some links to blues- and folk-art-oriented organizations, museums, festivals, and so on in Clarksdale, the greater Mississippi Delta, the United States, and abroad. We of course cannot verify the information contained on these web pages. If you have a question it is best to contact the organization directly.
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CLARKSDALE WEB SITES...
Planning a trip to Clarksdale soon? Check out these sites for more information. Also, always feel free to call or e-mail us with questions or to get on our weekly Delta "CAT HEAD" Update e-list.Directory of Clarksdale, Mississippi area businesses
Clarksdale Web Info - clarksdalewebinfo.com provides area news and excellent web links for music, events, stores, hotels and much more.
Mississippi Tourism web site - free info for visitors
Clarksdale Press Register newspaper on-line; search for blues articles; sign up for updates
Juke Joint Festival & Related Events - The 5th annual is coming April 17-19, 2009 in the old downtown... outside, at Cat Head, the jukes and more. Fest is Sat., April 18 with related blues events in town Friday through Sunday! Very cool.
Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival - Fest in August. Make plans now. Dates listed here for this and other fests. Check bottom of "Guide To Clarksdale" page for hotel info.
Delta Blues Museum - the one and only... see Muddy's cabin and much more!
Miss Del's General Store - Feed, Seed & Everything You Need! (From gourmet chocolate and cheese to jewelry and bath & body... PLUS the usual plants and seeds, of course.) ALSO, down the street at the old gas station is a weekly Miss Del's Farmer's Market during the summer months.
Studio 61 Recording - record blues in its home.
Bluestown Music - vintage guitars and music supplies downtown.
BluesSource.com - Gary Miller moved here and opened this used record store and information source in 2007.
Ground Zero Blues Club and Cotton Company Apartments - co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman and attorney Bill Luckett with Howard Stovall.
Ground Zero Blues Club Music/Vincent Productions - DVD music film/production company based in Clarksdale.
ShackUp Inn & Cotton Gin Inn (Hopson) - Delta's most unique "B&B" (bed & beer); sometimes a little music. ALSO, the Sunday after the Helena blues fest is the annual Pinetop Perkins Homecoming.
Riverside Hotel - Stay where Ike Turner lived and Bessie Smith died; rustic outside, accommodating inside. Best host in the world: Frank "Rat" Ratliff.
The Loft at Hopson Plantation - Another cool place to stay (beside the Shackup Inn, near Hopson Commissary).
The Big Pink Guesthouse - B&B in the pink house on John Lee Hooker Lane, downtown.
Blues Hound Flat - Cool, new flat (apartment) in a wonderful old building in the heart of downtown Clarksdale.
Uncle Henry's Place - rustic B&B at nearby Moon Lake with incredible Creole cooking
The Belle Clark - Closed B&B.. recently purchased...
Madidi Restaurant - fine restaurant co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman and lawyer Bill Luckett
Quapaw Canoe Co. - John Ruskey's canoe-adventure tours on the Mississippi.
Clarksdale Tourism site - Lists sights to see.
WROX radio station - Clarksdale's historic oldies, blues and gospel station since the 1940s. 1450AM or 92.1FM plus on-line... featuring the CAT HEAD DELTA BLUES SHOW sponsored by First National Bank and Fiser Insurance of Clarksdale every Saturday 7-9pm. Listen on-line at www.wroxradio.com.
Middleton Realty - they found OUR house; maybe they can find YOURS. See web banner above.
Fiser Insurance Agency - Co-sponsor of "Cat Head Delta Blues Hour" on WROX radio. Contact Jimmy Wilson for an insurance quote on your auto, home and more! They also have a realty company.
Stan Street/Hambone Gallery - Clarksdale-based blues painter who moved here like we did!
Isle of Capri Casino Entertainment Resort - Located in Lula, MS... supporter of Juke Joint and Sunflower River Blues Festivals.
Blues-related RADIO in the Greater Delta region
WROX radio station - Clarksdale's historic oldies, blues and gospel station since the 1940s. 1450AM or 92.1FM plus on-line... featuring the CAT HEAD DELTA BLUES SHOW sponsored by First National Bank and Fiser Insurance of Clarksdale every Saturday 6-8pm. Listen on-line at www.wroxradio.com.
King Biscuit Time - Sunshine Sonny Payne hosts this ancient show (12:15pm weekdays) from KFFA in Helena, AR.
Southern Soul Radio - Internet station from Jackson, Mississippi. Great southern soul.
WEVL - Blues and other programming from Memphis, TN. Host yearly "Blues on Bluffs" concert series.
XM Satellite Radio - Bill Wax's "Bluesville" calls Cat Head most Thursdays around 4pm CST for a "live" Delta Update!
Blues (and Gospel) Festivals and Events in the Delta Region
See Cat Head's "LIVE MUSIC" page for tons more festivals with this year's dates!
Juke Joint Festival & related events - The 5th annual is coming April 18-20, 2008. Awesome!
Highway 61 Blues Festival in Leland, MS, June.
Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival - Aug. 8-10, 2008 (plus Cat Head's fabulous Mini Blues Fest on Sunday!). Make plans now. Check bottom of "Guide To Clarksdale" page for hotel info. Check "Live Music" page for line-ups... main fest and Cat Head's!
Howlin' Wolf Memorial Blues Festival See "Live Music" page on this web site.
Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival in Greenville, MS, September. See "Live Music" page.
Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly King Biscuit Fest) in Helena, Arkansas in October. See "Live Music" page.
Foundations, organizations, and other interesting blues-related sites.
"M for MISSISSIPPI" film/cd project - Broke & Hungry Records and Cat Head Presents... "A Journey through the Birthplace of the Blues" -- COMING FALL 2008 (pre-order DVD/CD today at www.mformississippi.com).
Mississippi Blues Highway Organization - an ad hoc group of Miss. blues interests.
XM Radio - Bill Wax chats with Cat Head about the Delta Thursdays just past 5pm EST (4pm CST).
WEVL - Memphis radio... with blues and more. "Blues On The Bluffs" concert info (click here).
www.mississippipolitical.com - Good source for Mississippi news. Tons of links on their BLUES page.
The Blues Foundation, of Memphis, Tennessee.
"Blues World" - Great blues resource site with links, etc.
www.BluesLinks.nl - Blues Links is an excellent source for international blues web links.
More To The Blues web site of "live" blues gigs around the U.S.
Dick Waterman's web site - He knew, managed and photo'd many Delta blues greats.
American Dream Safari - Music tours of Memphis and the Delta in Tad Pierson's '55 Caddy.
Sharon McConnell "lifecasts", amazing 3-D masks of contemporary blues players.
Great page of BLUES LINKS - tons of stuff... great resource
Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis, TN.
Blanche K. Bruce Foundation, Rosedale, MS.
www.willie-king.com, Juke joint legend.
Junior's Juke Joint, Jr. knows blues, jukes and good ole Southern cooking!
Jesse Mae Hemphill Foundation - she's still the coolest
Goner Records guide to Memphis, Plan ahead. Have more fun.
Blindman's Blues Forum - Blues information and discussion.
Alluvian Hotel - Not a "blues site" per se, but a luxurious place to say while you visit the Delta.
Folk Art links
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
The Folk Art Society of America
Intuit, Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL.
SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), Los Angeles
Magazines of Interest
Blues & Rhythm - Excellent British magazine on real blues. Check it out on-line. Buy it at Cat Head.
Blues Matters - Nice, pocket-size British blues magazine. (Featured Clarksdale in 2005.) Buy on-line.
Raw Vision - Essential folk and outsider art magazine available at Cat Head.
King Biscuit Time - Read "Cat Head's Update" in every issue for news on the Delta. FREE at Cat Head.
Living Blues - Published out of Oxford, Mississippi and available at Cat Head.
Big City Blues - Check out the column by C'dale's Joni Mayberry. Available at Cat Head.
Blues Revue - Possibly the best-selling popular blues magazine.
Juke Blues - Another great publication from overseas.
No Depression - The "Alt-Country" bible... with occasional blues reviews/articles
Bluespeak - Excellent internet blues magazine.
Memphis Mojo - Memphis-based internet magazine. VERY useful for tourists!Museums
Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS. The original. Better than ever.
WROX Museum, Clarksdale, MS. Local radio and cultural history.
Rock 'N Roll & Blues Heritage Museum, Clarksdale, MS. New collection of awesome blues and rock memorabilia -- from a Dutch-born, Delta transplant named Theo!
Highway 61 Blues Museum, Leland, MS. Just an hour south of Clarksdale.
Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas. Across the River from Clarksdale.
Tunica Museum, Tunica, MS. Discover the blues and history of Tunica County.
Blues & Legends Hall of Fame - Cool, little FREE blues museum inside Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, MS.
Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum - Steve LaVere's museum/gallery in Greenwood, MS.
Delta Music Museum, Ferriday, Louisiana. Across the River from Natchez.
Mississippi John Hurt Museum, Avalon, MS. Near Greenwood.
Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee.
National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee. A must!
"I've Got a Woman" performed by The Mississippi House Rockers Live at The Echo Lounge in 2009!
Last Of The Mississippi Jukes
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Last Of The Mississippi Jukes
True Blues music by The Mississippi House Rockers Blues Band performing live at a true Mississippi Juke Joint The Echo Lounge in Meridian Mississippi. The Mississippi House Rockers were featured in the documentary "Last of The Mississippi Jukes" starring Morgan Freeman featuring the Subway Lounge in Jackson Mississippi. Jimmy King the owner of the Subway Louge is seen here singing with The House Rockers!
Starring: Chris Thomas King, Bobby Rush, Greg "Fingers" Taylor
Directed By: Robert Mugge
Genre: Documentary, Black, Music
Synopsis: A close look at the disappearing venues where rural blues originated. A Starz Original Production. USA - 2002 - TV14
© 2002 STARZ ENCORE ENTERTAINMENT
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To purchase this video from us, call us at (662)624-5992, or send us an email. Price does not include shipping (or sales tax for Mississippi residents). Call or email for final cost.
- JUKE; 1997 Yellow Cat Productions; VHS only, $22.
- Juke Joint Saturday Night: Live from Margaret's Blues Diamond Lounge; 1991 Juke Joint Productions; VHS only, $16.
- Son House and Bukka White: Masters of the Country Blues; 2000 Yazoo; DVD $20, VHS $16.
Last of the Mississippi Jukes, A Robert Mugge Film; 2003 Sanctuary; DVD only, $25.
- Muddy Waters: Got My Mojo Working. Rare Performances, 1968-1978; 2000 Yazoo/Shanahachie; DVD only, $20.
Now on YouTube - Local News - NYTimes.com
Now on YouTube - Local News - NYTimes.comNews Near You draws from a variety of sources. VidSF prepares to videotape a segment with Ronn Vigh.
With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.
YouTube, which already boasts of being “the biggest news platform in the world,” has created a News Near You feature that senses a user’s location and serves up a list of relevant videos. In time, it could essentially engineer a local newscast on the fly. It is already distributing hometown video from dozens of sources, and it wants to add thousands more.
YouTube says it is helping TV stations and its other partners by creating a new — but so far not fiscally significant — source of revenue.
But news media companies may have reasons to be wary. Few TV stations have figured out how replicate profits on the Internet. YouTube can easily act as another competitor.
So for now, most of the YouTube videos near you come from nontraditional sources: radio stations, newspapers, colleges and, in the case of a fledgling San Francisco outfit called VidSF, three friends who despise the local TV diet of fires and homicides.
“It really levels the playing field,” said Kieran Farr, a founder of VidSF who covers the city’s culture and uploads his segments to YouTube.
News Near You, started in the spring, is only part of YouTube’s push into news video. This summer, the company invited the more than 25,000 news sources listed on Google News to become video suppliers. The site is also promoting videos from ABC News, The Associated Press, Reuters and other outlets.
This year, it began featuring breaking news videos — including ones submitted by citizens in Iran, where protests are being captured by cellphone users — on its home page.
So far, the localized videos are no replacement for a print or TV diet of news. On Sunday, visitors near Baltimore saw a news report about a teen assistance program; in Chicago they saw a WGN-TV feature about street performers; and in Los Angeles, they saw a review of an electric motorcycle produced by The Los Angeles Times. Producers often count the views in hundreds, not thousands.
To date, nearly 200 news outlets have signed up with YouTube to post news packages and split the revenue from the advertisements that appear with them. In addition, Google searches now show YouTube videos alongside news articles, helping the videos reach a wider audience.
YouTube’s sheer breadth — it is visited by 100 million Americans each month — makes it a powerful force for promotion, as well as a potential threat to entrenched media companies. And those companies already have more than enough to worry about: much of the local media marketplace has collapsed in recent years as classified ads have moved online, automakers have curtailed ad spending and news and entertainment options have proliferated.
YouTube, meanwhile, is still trying to turn a profit nearly three years after it was acquired by Google. Because copyright concerns prevent it from placing ads on amateur videos, it has striven to sign up professional partners to seed the site with ad-friendly content. News is one obvious option.
“Google can only gain by splitting revenue with people who have feet on the street in local markets,” said Terry Heaton, a senior vice president at AR&D, a company that advises locally focused media organizations.
Google said in June that it was pleased with YouTube’s trajectory and indicated that it expected the site to be profitable in the not-too-distant future, but did not specify when.
While YouTube can gain by adding local video, it remains to be seen whether established news outlets will benefit. Google’s scraping of print headlines and links has led some to assign blame to the company for the financial struggles of newspapers. The chief executive of Dow Jones recently called Google a “digital vampire” that was “sucking the blood” from newspapers by harvesting their free articles.
What YouTube is doing is somewhat different. It is not sending digital spiders around the Web to collect videos automatically; instead, it is asking news outlets to sign up as partners and promising a wider audience for their material.
YouTube’s push to organize local news video began in earnest in the spring when the News Near You module was introduced. The module uses the Internet address of a visitor’s computer to determine the user’s location and whether any partners are located within a 100-mile radius. If so, seven days of local videos are displayed.
Blues News From Clarksdale | Sing All Kinds | Memphis Flyer
Blues News From Clarksdale | Sing All Kinds | Memphis FlyerBlues News From Clarksdale
Posted by Andria Lisle on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Unlike their rock-and-roll counterparts, who are busy over-analyzing the death of music magazines or pondering the navigational routes of social networking sites, blues fans Roger Stolle and Jeff Konkel aren't content to cool their heels while the music biz struggles to reinvent itself for modern times.
Last year, the duo, respective owners of the Clarksdale, Miss.-based Cat Head record label and retail store and the Missouri-based Broke and Hungry CD imprint, combined their mission via M for Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues, a blues tourism-oriented documentary film that celebrates contemporary performers such as guitarists Duck Holmes, T-Model Ford, Robert "Bilbo" Walker and the late Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson, who succumbed to cancer on July 22.
As Stolle told me back in May, "the main goal of the project was to get people to come to Mississippi and to promote these artists so they get booked other places. It's easy to sell the idea of blues museums or institutions that celebrate the blues of the past, but we wanted to promote the idea that even in the 21st century, you're able to travel here and experience the blues yourself."
One week later, the DVD won a Blues Music Award. And in late July, Stolle and Konkel took the show on the road to the Notodden, Norway Blues Festival, where they screened the documentary and staged a showcase with Ford, Robert Belfour, and 80-year old L.C. Ulmer (pictured above).
This weekend, the entire crew will repeat their performances — on their home turf this time, at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in downtown Clarksdale. Bettye Lavette headlines the free, two-day festival, which also features James "Super Chikan" Johnson, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm, Shardee Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, and more. Go here for a complete schedule.
If you head down to C'dale, don't miss the Cat Head Mini Blues Fest, slated for Sunday morning, or the myriad nighttime club shows, such as harmonica great Big George Brock's Saturday night gig at the Hopson Commissary. And be sure to check out the latest Mississippi Blues Trail markers erected by the state's Blues Commission.
Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' - Los Angeles Times
Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' - Los Angeles Times
Charlie Gillett/RedfernsBilly Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles.Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll'
Charlie Gillett/RedfernsBilly Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles.The raucous performer and songwriter recorded for Sun Records for four years and later worked as a studio musician in L.A. His other big single was 'Red Hot.'Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," has died. He was 75.
Riley died Sunday of colon cancer that had spread to the bone at a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., said his wife, Joyce.
Elvis Week 2009 - August in Memphis
Elvis Week 2009 - August in Memphis
Tuesday August 4, 2009August 4, 2009 - Last Day to Buy Graceland Elvis Week Tickets Online - The deadline to purchase tickets online for Elvis Week 2009 events sold through Graceland is Tuesday, August 4 at 5 p.m. Tickets for all Ticketmaster events will continue to be for sale leading up to the events by calling 800-745-3000, at any Ticketmaster Outlet, or online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Cannon Center Box Office.
The annual Elvis Week celebration at Graceland is a nine-day gathering of friends and fans from around the world to celebrate Elvis Presley's life and career. Events, which take place each year on and around the anniversary of Elvis' death on August 16, 1977, include tribute concerts, movies, an annual Candlelight Vigil and much more.
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