who wants to go to memphis with me?

i'm really tempted to do this. flights aren't too $$$.

you should go, seriously. stay at what is now called "the artisan" (on union and mclean), it's like less than 60 bucks a night, relatively cheap and only 4 blocks from the hi tone. it's even closer to the bucc. kind of a haul to and from goner on hoof but i've done it before and it didn't kill me.

it's fun, trust me.

It would be totally unsurprising if I could be convinced to go, too....

i've been playing around with flight/hotel combos, and so far i'm getting the best price* with the springhill suites... we'll see. it's early yet.

*not including airport hotels or places like 13 miles out of town

xpost - neat! i wonder if driving is at alll feasible.

First I'd have to finish getting my "license"....

It would be totally unsurprising if I could be convinced to go, too....

-- Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:41 (Yesterday) Link

oh man laurel it's a long time from now until september and i'm pretty tenacious. you can still smoke in bars in memphis!! they have bud bottles!!! good friends! rock 'n' roll!!

only seven hours' drive, very tempting

STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS

especially basically every time i drink cause it sounds SO FUN but then when i sober up i start worrying about the logistics like where to sleep etc

but i do think it would be fun

Then I'm walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel

I agree that Richard Marx was a very talented musician sanskrit but I'm serious here

if you're serious, i can find you a place to sleep.

serious. i'm going if anyone else is serious, lemme know.

My wife would go if she wasn't performing in an opera that weekend and if she didn't have to go to the festival.

by the way c0c0c0ma and tuff bananas (mke) are confirmed. come on down.

this sounds awesome. i'm prolz going.

http://www.nmshillcountrypicnic.com/07_press_release.htm

2nd annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic celebrates the legacies of departed North Mississippi blues legends including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Othar Turner

Extended to Two Days, June 29-30, 2007

Last July’s inaugural North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic was a resounding success, drawing over 1,000 people to a rural site in Potts Camp in Marshall County. The festival demonstrated the vitality of the contemporary blues scene in North Mississippi, and in light of the tremendous public response this year’s event has been extended to two days. Potts Camp is located off of Route 78, about halfway between Memphis and Tupelo.

The festival celebrates the legacies of departed North Mississippi blues legends including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Othar Turner, and the festival will once again feature many of their children and grandchildren. These include Duwayne Burnside, and his band the Mississippi Mafia; the Burnside Exploration, featuring Cedric and Garry Burnside; David Kimbrough; the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, led by Othar Turner’s 17-year-old granddaughter Sharde Thomas.

Other "second generation" acts returning to the event include Kenny Brown, R.L. Burnside’s longtime guitarist and "adopted son;" and the Reverend John Wilkins, son of pre-WWII recording artist Robert Wilkins, whose song "Prodigal Son" was covered by the Rolling Stones. Also returning to the festival are soul-blues legend Bobby Rush, Jimbo Mathus and Knockdown South, T-Model Ford, Cary Hudson with Blue Mountain, Jocco Rushing with Fried Chicken & Gasoline, and John Barnett.

Additions this year include the North Mississippi Allstars, whose leader Luther Dickinson grew up listening to R.L. Burnside and attending Othar Turner’s fife and drum picnics; the Oxford-based Taylor Grocery Band, which features Junior Kimbrough’s son Kinney Kimbrough on drums and vocals; and Alvin Youngblood Hart, Danny Lancaster, and Olga Wilhelmine Mathus.

Potts Camp resident Kenny Brown, who has been playing Hill Country blues since he was a young boy with artists including Mississippi Joe Callicott and Johnny Woods, conceived the festival. "The original idea for this thing was to get all the Hill Country acts we could together at one time here in North Mississippi," says Brown. "I know from first hand experience how popular the music is all over the world, but we previously didn’t have an opportunity to celebrate our shared heritage here on our home turf. Last year we had a better turn out than we expected and it was wonderful for the performers to be able to hang out together and see the audience having such a great time. Sara Davis and the other organizers did a great job of getting everything together. This year we’re adding another day and some more acts, and we’re looking forward to an even greater turnout. Last year we had people from seventeen states and three foreign countries and I’m sure it will be even better this year. We’ll have plenty of food and a camping area."

The festival is run by the non –profit organization North MS Hill Country Picnic, Inc., and enjoys great support and sponsorship from North Mississippi communities. Camping will be allowed both nights, coolers are permitted, and vendors will sell local delicacies including barbeque and fried catfish. A portion of each ticket will be donated to MusiCaresÓ , a charity run by the Recording Academy that provides free health care for musicians in need. Sponsors to-date include Flick’s Country Restaurant, R & B Feder Charitable Foundation, Paragon Casino, Freeland & Freeland, One Day Signs, Holly Springs Tourism, Oxford Tourism, Honest Tunes, Living Blues, Two Stick, Parrish Baker Pub, Cleary Designs, Fat Possum, Vista III Media, Budweiser, and American RV.

For more information visit the website www.nmshillcountrypicnic.com

I think I'll have to find another source of income in order to go. :-/ Which is a possibility. Our Very Own Lauren was also intersted last I checked.

this gonna work?
http://www.goner-records.com/images/ads/banners/gonerfest-flash.gif

the answer would be a resounding no.

i will go if someone will pay otherwise probably not

i do not understand the music

A) how much moneys does this cost and B) can i go like only one or two nights instead of all four or is it a package deal? i cannot find this information on the site

tickets are not on sale yet. don't know how much it will cost. two years ago the four day passes were $40, individual nights were $12. i'm assuming it will be the same.

fun, guaranteed.

Wow, that's cheap.

I agree that Richard Marx was a very talented musician sanskrit but I'm serious here

Is it sad that I know that that wasn't Richard Marx but Marc Cohn?

yes, but i noticed that as well.

my memphis dreams may be torpedoed by my ever-shrinking available vacation days. :(

well fuck it, i'll enough fun for all of us i'm sure.

wait i could actually go to this maybe?

updated information. fuck, i'm gonna miss preacher's kids and the hex dispensers.

hey! they used one of my photos there!

Hex Dispensers are ace.

i'll go for the first night but anything else is too rich for my blood (and by that i mean $15 each)

Hex Dispensers are ace.

ot8080m.

I've known those dude/ettes for years and think this is my favorite band that any of them are currently in. Although Mankin is up there too.

i've "known" alex for a while but only actually met him when they came to chicago about a year ago. fucking great band.

My ex was in a couple of bands with Alex. We both relocated here from Dallas at about the same time. Pretty much every band he's been in has been great.

there was some dude named bj (i think?) who was on tour with them, he was a fucking BLAST. tell sherry i said hello the next time you see her ms. misery.

tickets are on sale now. and i'm too broke to buy groceries... good luck.

Are the passes in danger of selling out for this? I rly rly want to go but travel considerations are a bitch when you don't drive or have credit cards.

passes will sell out, don't know how fast, but they'll go. i'm only going down for friday through sunday. i might be going w/bi11 and 1isa to dc from there, it depends on my employment situation.

I'm definitely going! who else'll be dere?

I think I'm passing on Memphis in order to afford tix to Cavestomp in November. :(

well i'll have fun!

R.I.P. Memphis born photographer Ernest Withers

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,2198668,00.html

Best known for his civil rights photos, but also known for:

Withers also photographed jazz, blues and rock musicians. He captured Elvis Presley in the 1950s and Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Howlin' Wolf, Ike and Tina Turner, BB King, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Chuck Berry. Later came two books that draw on that work, Pictures Tell a Story (2000) and The Memphis Blues Again (2001).