Two Night of Jam Band Fun at the inaugural Duwayne Burnside Festival in Marshall County

Over the last decade or so, Hill Country bluesman Duwayne Burnside has sponsored a fall picnic, usually in September. It was usually called the R. L. Burnside Memorial Picnic, and was held in numer…

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Boots on the Muddy Ground, But A Good Time

It has been my goal this year to go to a trail ride, and while the Michigan City Blues Festival in Benton County, Mississippi wasn’t exactly a trail ride, it was an outdoor southern soul show…

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Easter Afternoon at a Blues Juke in the Hill Country

Holly Springs, Mississippi is home to one of the state’s youngest juke joints, the Burnside Bar and Grill, which belongs to Hill Country bluesman Duwayne Burnside, and on Sunday afternoons, i…

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The Beginning and End of All Music

Marshall County, Mississippi in the part of Northeast Mississippi known as the Hill Country, is home to two of the state’s best-known blues families, the Kimbroughs from the Hudsonville area,…

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