BSC announces I Listen to Memphis platform!

 

I Listen to Memphis is about Memphis music today, the musicians who make it, and the places and culture that fuel it. We are here to inform and inspire by sharing the best of Memphis music.

* Memphis and Delta artists included in the series are Hippy Soul with Ra’id, Cedric Burnside, Dirty Streets, Liz Brasher, Motel Mirrors, HEELS, KIRBY, Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys, Negro Terror, Spooner Oldham with Marcella & Her Lovers, and Rev John Wilkins with his Three Daughters.

*I Listen to Memphis is sponsored by Arts Memphis, Hyde Family Foundation, Firefly, and Anonymous.

For more information or to sign up to become an ILTM donor, please click here.

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#2233 – Ameripolitan Music Awards

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#2232 – Sons of Mudboy

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#2231 – John Paul Keith

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#2230 – Liz Brasher

This week we feature Fat Possum Records recording artist, Liz Brasher. A recent Memphis transplant, this singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader describes her sound as "garage rock meets the Delta blues meets gospel meets soul." Liz is celebrating the release of...
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#2229 – Kaia Kater

This week we feature emerging African-Canadian roots artist, Kaia Kater, in a live performance right here at our BSC office. BSC contributor Barbara Ching returns to continue her series on the connections between country music and the blues....
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#2228 – Motel Mirrors

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#2227 – Dale Watson

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#2226 – Greyhounds

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#2225 – The Kimbrough Brothers at Deep Blues Fest

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