The Marianna Cut-Off: Singing the Blues in Hughes

The St. Francis County, Arkansas town of Hughes looms large in the blues world. Alan Lomax visited in 1959, recording musicians like William Brown, Roland “Blue Boy” Hayes and Forrest C…

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Remembering West Memphis’s South Eighth Street

While Memphis’s Beale Street is far better known, and has been restored as a tourist attraction, South Eighth Street across the river in West Memphis, Arkansas was if anything a wilder street…

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