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Pork fans can help the Food Bank
The Other White Meat Tour has a big presence at the barbecue contest, doing some demos, giving away samples and looking for the No. 1 Pork Fan in Memphis. Yes, it’s one big promotional hullabaloo for the National Pork Board, but there is one nice benefit: for every entry in the No. 1 Pork Fan contest, [...]
Continue reading...Keeping up at the Barbecue Contest
14. May 2009
Reprinted here for your reading pleasure (and containing a few words to the wise) is the Memphis in May rules and regs for people negotiating the WCBCC. You have been warned. Before you visit the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, there are some things you will need to know. We’ve tried to sum them up for [...]
Continue reading...Try not to be sad, but…
3. May 2009
This photo was taken toward the end of the day on Sunday at the Beale Street Music Festival. A young Chilean singer tried to impress the crowd by riding his horse through Tom Lee Park and onto the Sam’s Town stage. The mud was so deep that the horse got stuck and the more it [...]
Continue reading...What do the bands eat backstage?
3. May 2009
Napoleon (or was it Frederick the Great?) once said that an army marches on its stomach. The saying holds true for the army of volunteers, musicians and crew members at the Beale Street Music Festival. For the past 8 years, providing hot food to the host of hungry roadies has been the job of Winfrey’s Catering [...]
Continue reading...How to handle Triple 6
3. May 2009
So I barged into the Three 6 Mafia trailer smiling widely so they wouldn’t immediately beat me to a pulp. I finally convinced Juicy J I wasn’t the guy from Rendezvous with the barbecue but just a common reporter with a video camera and would he be so kind as to speak to our readers [...]
Continue reading...Where Does George Clinton Come From?
3. May 2009
Those who have seen George Clinton & P Funk know that the band is more than just a band. It’s a surreal pageant of weirdness. The guy in the underwear. The guy in the wedding dress. The list goes on. Fronting the band is the unclassifiable George Clinton. Backstage, onlookers played a game of figuring out [...]
Continue reading...Costello is the new Waldo
2. May 2009
One great thing about Saturday’s music festival was that with the price of admission, you were virtually guaranteed to see Elvis Costello. You didn’t even have to be at his set from 8 to 9:20. You just had to go see other people perform; Elvis Costello would just show up on the stage. Many of you [...]
Continue reading...A little more about the boys from Chile
2. May 2009
Memphis crowds are notoriously stiff, even in the face of obvious awesomeness, but there were a few die-hard Chancho en Piedra fans in the crowd who were feeling the funk and getting down. And The CA’s own Kerry Crawford gets in on the action a little too. Click here for the video, which for some [...]
Continue reading...Rapping with the Sticky Muck
2. May 2009
The eloquent and colorful stylings of the singular Muck Sticky brought a decent crowd to the aptly named “Bud” tent this afternoon to start off a soggy festival. Here’s a video of Muck discoursing a few minutes before going on stage where he had his fans in full thrall. –Jon W. Sparks
Continue reading...Patch Adams
2. May 2009
As always, we are ever-vigilant for interesting-looking people at the Beale Street Music Festival, and this person who shall remain nameless, suddenly appeared in the camera sight. When a man walks around shirtless with a large patch on his belly, we have to wonder what is that patch for? Perhaps a recent surgery? We wish [...]
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15. May 2009
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