The Delta Review

A Great Brisket Sandwich At Simon’s Fish Camp in Bolivar I had to travel to Bolivar on a Saturday to play music for a renewal of vows ceremony, and afterwards, I was hungry. I don’t get to Bolivar often, and the last time I did get out that way, I …

A Great Brisket Sandwich At Simon's Fish Camp in Bolivar thedeltareview.com/barbecue-2/a...

Mason, Tennessee Celebrates Its Heritage With The Annual Fall Jubilee Every fall, the small town of Mason in Tipton County, Tennessee holds an annual fall festival with vendors food trucks and live music. It generally takes place along Front Street in an area traditi…

Mason, Tennessee Celebrates Its Heritage With The Annual Fall Jubilee thedeltareview.com/band/mason-t...

On the Patio with Joshua McCain and the Soul Seven at the Greyhound After I walked up to the Dollar General Store on the Main Street Mall to buy batteries for my camera, I was closer to Union Avenue than I was to Beale Street. So I decided to walk on to Union Avenu…

On the Patio with Joshua McCain and the Soul Seven at the Greyhound thedeltareview.com/band/on-the-...

The Blues’s Last Outpost in an Out of the Way North Memphis Bar Visitors to Memphis’s Beale Street are usually disappointed. Although the street is famous for blues, blues is rarely heard there these days; the street’s fate was truly sealed when the…

The Blues's Last Outpost in an Out of the Way North Memphis Bar thedeltareview.com/band/the-blu...

Cool Jazz at The Cove in Memphis’ Broad Avenue Arts District The city of Memphis has produced a lot of great jazz musicians- Jamil Nasser, Charles Lloyd, Booker Little, Frank Strozier, Harold Mabern, Phineas Newborn Jr., Frank Lowe, Joe Dukes, Sonny Criss, a…

Cool Jazz at The Cove in Memphis' Broad Avenue Arts District thedeltareview.com/band/cool-ja...

Local Wine Made From Local Grapes in Shelby County, Tennessee Delta Blues Winery, just east of Rosemark inside the city limits of Lakeland, is Shelby County’s only local winery. An older one near Millington closed a couple of years ago, and there is one…

Local Wine Made From Local Grapes in Shelby County, Tennessee thedeltareview.com/food-2/local...

The Black Fire Band Brings the Fire to Los Cabos in Hickory Hill Los Cabos is a Mexican Restaurant on Quince Road in the Hickory Hill neighborhood of Memphis. It’s not really a nightclub per se, but it has a history of booking good Black bands. Earlier in …

The Black Fire Band Brings the Fire to Los Cabos in Hickory Hill thedeltareview.com/band/the-bla...

Vinyl Lives in Downtown Memphis at River City Records In 1967, the Memphis Housing Authority warned Ruben Cherry that he would have to close or move his legendary Home of the Blues Record Store at 107 Beale Street, as the building was slated for conde…

Vinyl Lives in Downtown Memphis at River City Records thedeltareview.com/albums-2/vin...

Devour Sweets and Satisfy Your Cravings at Memphis’s Dvour Desserts Just up from the Central Station Hotel in the South Main Arts District is Dvour Desserts, an arty stark modern space with coffee, cookies and cheesecake-based desserts. The space gives off gallery …

Devour Sweets and Satisfy Your Cravings at Memphis's Dvour Desserts thedeltareview.com/coffee-2/dev...

The Train Has Arrived At the Station for Great Gelato in Memphis On the Thursday of Fall Break week, I decided to venture into downtown Memphis as if I was on vacation. I didn’t have the funds to rent a luxury hotel room, but I parked in an area where ther…

The Train Has Arrived At the Station for Great Gelato in Memphis thedeltareview.com/desserts-2/t...

A Beautiful Day and Great Fun at Coldwater Day The phenomenon of “town days” is fairly unique to the state of Mississippi, and occurs mainly in predominantly-Black towns. It is possible that they began as a sort of town reunion, a w…

A Beautiful Day and Great Fun at Coldwater Day thedeltareview.com/black-histor...

Covington, Tennessee Has A Pizza Farm There are fruit and vegetable farms, farms that raise pastured pork and beef, egg farms, and dairy farms…..but a pizza farm? Yes, In Tipton County, Tennessee, west of Covington, there is actu…

Covington, Tennessee Has A Pizza Farm thedeltareview.com/burgers-2/co...

YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Drumline Cadence #2 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Drumline-Cadence #2. Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Drumline Cadence #1 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Drumline-Cadence #1 Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band Isn't She Lovely Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band-Isn't She Lovely-Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band #7 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band #7 Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band #6 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band #6 Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band #5 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band #5 Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band Big Ballin' Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band-Big Ballin'-Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band Here I Go Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band-Here I Go-Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band #2 Pep Rally Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band #2 Memphis TN

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 09 26 Melrose High School Band Marching In Memphis TN

2025-09-26 Melrose High School Band-Marching In-Memphis TN

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Joe Hall’s Annual Fall Car Show In Bartlett, Tennessee Just as sure as fall and football season, every September, the man they call Joe Hall throws a car show at the old Lum Guffin estate on Guffin Road in Bartlett. It is one of the big events for the …

Joe Hall's Annual Fall Car Show In Bartlett, Tennessee thedeltareview.com/event-2/joe-...

Ramblin’ Joe’s Rambles To the Hamp Ramblin Joe’s Coffee is Memphis-based, the public-facing retail arm of Ugly Mug Coffee Roasters, whose coffee bar at Perkins Extended and Poplar has been an East Memphis landmark for many yea…

Ramblin' Joe's Rambles To the Hamp thedeltareview.com/breakfast-2/...

Two Night of Jam Band Fun at the inaugural Duwayne Burnside Festival in Marshall County Over the last decade or so, Hill Country bluesman Duwayne Burnside has sponsored a fall picnic, usually in September. It was usually called the R. L. Burnside Memorial Picnic, and was held in numer…

Two Night of Jam Band Fun at the inaugural Duwayne Burnside Festival in Marshall County thedeltareview.com/band/two-nig...

75 Years of Hollering “Goat” in Tate County, Mississippi: Blues and Fife and Drum For 75 years, there has been a Labor Day picnic in Tate County, Mississippi, featuring barbecued goat and fife and drum music. The tradition was started by the late Otha Turner, an area farmer and …

75 Years of Hollering "Goat" in Tate County, Mississippi: Blues and Fife and Drum thedeltareview.com/band/75-year...

It appears that I can post again on Bluesky, at least at the present. My ability to be on the platform has been affected by my proximity to the state of Mississippi, even though I live 20 miles from the line in Shelby County, Tennessee. Apparently my ISP sometimes uses Mississippi towers.

A Return To Home Place Pastures Near Como, Mississippi A rehearsal for a wedding I was asked to play music for had me down by the Mississippi state line on an early Saturday afternoon. And since I was heading to Coldwater later for the second day of th…

A Return To Home Place Pastures Near Como, Mississippi thedeltareview.com/burgers-2/a-...

YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 08 30 Cash's Juke Joint It Don't Stop Coldwater MS

2025-08-30-Angel Ocasio Jr & Cash's Juke Joint-It Don't Stop-The GOAT Picnic-Coldwater MS

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YouTube video by John Shaw 2025 08 30 Rising Stars and Next Generation Bounce Ball Coldwater MS

2025-08-30 The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band and the Next Generation-Bounce Ball-The GOAT Picnic-Coldwater MS

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