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Foz outside WDIA, one of the most important radio stations in music history. - Credit: Stephen Foster in his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster reflects on a memorable visit to Memphis. Even if the only thing Memphis had given the world was Elvis Presley it would still be held in very high esteem by music lovers. The city’s most famous resident certainly put the place on the pop music map but many years earlier Beale Street had helped give birth to the blues, a genre ...

Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass, probably didn't know he was writing the song that would alter Elvis Presley's career.

Louisiana Red (4 out of 5 stars) "This is great music. Though a 2009 release, this could have been recorded anytime in the last 50 years. This has the feel of the old Sun Studios recordings and is filled with fine guitar, harp and lots of terrific, gritty, raw electric music. Red wrote all of the tunes on this one and incorporates some of his life experiences as he has in the past. I enjoyed every track on this CD. Red has played with many of the greats over the years and those influences are...

Franklin students to re-create Memphis march Rochelle Eiselt, rochelle.eiselt@myjournalcourier.com FacebookTwitterEmail FRANKLIN — Franklin Junior High students are planning to march Thursday from Alexander to Franklin. The 9-mile march, during which students from seventh and eighth grades will chant and carry signs seeking equality for everyone, is part of a plan to raise money to help fund a two-day educational field trip based on the civil rights movement. The walk starts at 8:30 a.m. and...

Creating rich and memorable musical compositions that stay with you long after you’ve listened to them, Dylan Kane is all set to become the next great sensation

Memphis Soulsville lives on

The deal includes about 6,000 recordings, including classics from Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

For U2, a typical day on tour involves a stadium packed with fans who know (and sing) every word to every single one of their songs, and it’s been that way for decades. But in the beginning, this wasn’t reality, but a dream: Bono (AKA Paul David Hewson), the Edge (AKA David Evans), Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. were merely teenagers who wanted to be in a rock band. Mullen, the drummer, posted a flyer on their school’s bulletin board looking for like-minded, aspiring musicians, and ...

Lab Theater Project to present ‘Lab Laughs’ TAMPA — Lab Theater Project will present “Lab Laughs: An Evening of Comedic Shorts,” running Jan. 21-24 at 812 E. Henderson Ave. in Ybor City, with in-house and livestreaming options. A part of Lab Theater Project’s annual giving fundraiser, “Lab Laughs” focuses on original short comedic works. Eight plays will be presented this year, taking the slate international for the first time with two Canadian playwright...

Iain Softley’s smart movie about the early days of the Beatles finds an indirect way of getting up close and personal with the music legends; the film-makers couldn’t afford the expense of using the copyrighted Lennon/McCartney songs. A study of the band’s hardworking lives gigging in Hamburg in the early 60s, the film counterintuitively centres on Stuart Sutcliffe (Steven Dorff) – the band member who was destined to die of a brain haemorrhage just as they were on the verge of greatness...