Jim Dickinson

Luther Dickinson celebrated the arrival of May by releasing three albums in a single day, and none of them had anything to do with his band the North Mississippi Allstars, his duo side project with his brother Cody or his role as lead guitarist in the Black Crowes. Read More

Steve Rhea, a key figure in the history of legendary Memphis rock group Big Star, has died. Read More

A defining characteristic of folk music is the malleable durability of the repertoire—songs passed down from generation to generation, re-tooled, rewritten and revised, the tales retold to reflect the teller. Read More

As in life, time seems to fly by at the Beale Street Music Festival. Read More

Even though she's lived and worked in Memphis since 1999, singer-songwriter-actress Amy LaVere isn't tied down to one place or, for that matter, one career. Read More

Kurt Wagner , the 53-year-old frontman of the inscrutable, genre-bending alt-country outfit Lambchop , has logged countless hours on the road with various shifting band lineups, all while putting out 11 albums over the last 18 years and collaborating with artists as sonically disparate as experimental country crooner Cortney Tidwell and downtempo electronica act Morcheeba. Read More