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There’s something in the water in Mississippi. In the midst of all these supposed blues origins, our state was stirring. An active volcano of blues, the poverty and vice of the bluesman led to a Mississippi eruption. While Handy wrote his sheet music blues and our friend Anthony Maggio dabbled in the blues during jazz-heavy tunes, Mississippi was breaking the backs...
Local restaurant and bar tops Travel + Leisure list for best college bars. Travel + Leisure recently named local restaurant and bar Proud Larry’s as one of America’s Best College Bars of 2013. Travel + Leisure highlighted the musical talent that has been a staple of Proud Larry’s since its opening, as well as its selection of beers native to the state. The recent...
The Music of the South Conference will be held today and tomorrow and will give attendants the opportunity to participate in talks centered around the music of the American South. Musicians, scholars and other active participants in the modern music world will gather today and tomorrow on The University of Mississippi campus and around Oxford for the 2013 Music of the...
With RebelTHON quickly approaching, the committee and students are preparing for Friday’s festivities. The final touches are being made for Friday’s RebelTHON, which benefits Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. RebelTHON will be held at the Jackson Center from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Those who sign up are encouraged to have a minimum $75 fundraising goal. Claire...
Nashville-based band The Wild Feathers will be bringing its Southern rock ‘n’ roll to Proud Larry’s today as part of its winter tour. Courtesy John Peets | Warner Brothers Records The Wild Feathers is a band that blends rock ‘n’ roll, folk, country and blues to create a sound that is raw but clean and crisp at the same time. While this blending of genres is not...
The transition of College to real life is bittersweet for some in the Oxford community. File Photo Oxford is home to about 20,000 people. Add the roughly 17,000 Ole Miss students, and you’ve got the Oxford-university community. “I hate that.” Angela Barrett has been living in Oxford for four years with her family of four. She works as a music associate at First...
King Kobraz has received widespread attention from students, administration and other fans, but there is more to the duo’s music of which others aren’t aware. Musical duo King Kobraz is known around campus for its songs that have been played at several sporting events this year. A video of “Feed Moncrief” has received over 110,000 views since it was uploaded to...
