Cougar Marching Band rehearsing a classic. On April 11, 1935, Richard Berry was born in Extension, Louisiana. Twenty years later, Berry, fro...

Meiko Kaji in Straycat Rock: Sex Hunter Meiko Kaji, like Tura Satana, managed to use the sexploitation movie genre to portray strong, powerf...

This clip makes my day. Bob Dylan backed by the Plugz wangin' out a Sonny Boy Williamson tune on Late Night with David Letterman , back ...

What’s that you say? Pass the chicken? Well, okay. But bear in mind, there’s no way I can give you every piece of the bird, as I’m no doubt ...

Back in 1961, Arthur Alexander, a rhythm & blues singer who dug country music, teamed up with Dan Penn & the Pall Bearers, country...

(Repost from Jan. 14, 2009. RIP Dale Hawkins.) Delmar Allen Hawkins, aka Dale Hawkins, was born in 1936 in Goldmine, Louisiana, just 30 mile...

Ollie Vee, he come from Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. But Buddy Holly, he come from Lubbock, Texas, home of country western radio station KDA...

For originating the song that first broke Elvis, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup sometimes got called the “Father of Rock’n’Roll.” For Crudup it was...

Once more on the subject of Memphis wrestling: Shangri-La Projects, the same folks who brought you Ron Hall’s great book Sputnik, Masked Men...