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Otha Turner

Kent Burnside Blues Band at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
May 12, 2024

Kent Burnside Blues Band Dazzle Denver, CO May 3, 2024 Geography has always been important to music. Especially before advances in transportation and communication, communities developed specific local styles of music, much like accents and dialects. But music, like language, is just another form of communication. And, like language and accents, ...

Beale Street Music Festival 2010

by C. Michael Bailey
May 22, 2010

Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...

From Senegal to Senatobia

By Otha Turner

Label: Birdman
Released: 2000

Otha Turner & the Afrossippi Allstars: From Senegal to Senatobia

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2000

Otha(r) Turner, a life-long resident of the rugged, brambly hill country surrounding Senatobia, Mississippi, is ninety-odd years young. In his near century of wizened existence he’s served as a living, breathing vessel for fife and drum musical traditions - traditions rooted in the 19th century America, which stretch back countless generations and have antecedents in the ...