75 Years of Hollering “Goat” in Tate County, Mississippi: Blues and Fife and Drum

For 75 years, there has been a Labor Day picnic in Tate County, Mississippi, featuring barbecued goat and fife and drum music. The tradition was started by the late Otha Turner, an area farmer and …

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Celebrating the Blues Culture of Brownsville and the Memory of Tina Turner

The death of soul and pop icon Tina Turner, who was a Haywood County, Tennessee native, hung heavy over this year’s Exit 56 Blues Festival at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brown…

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