#2235 – Mellotron Variations and Hunt Sales

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This week on the program we have Mellotron Variations. An instrumental project built around one of the most unique instruments ever conceived. We’ll also hear from rock and roll veteran, and sideman to the stars, Hunt Sales.

BSC contributor Jim Spake is back with us to continue his series, “Crazy About a Saxophone”  on the legendary sidemen that played rock’s original lead instrument.

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Liz Brasher – Come My Way

BSC is proud to expand its mission and introduce ILTM – a new weekly video series filmed in culturally relevant spaces. 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, inspire, and share the best of Memphis music.

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Memphis music is a melting pot. It’s a mashup of personalities and raw talent, stewed together in an environment that encourages pure self-expression. Fat Possum Records recording artist Liz Brasher was born to call Memphis home one day. She found her way into the fold the old-fashioned way – she came to Memphis to make a record. Back home, her musical education consisted of singing in the church she grew up in – a Spanish-speaking, Southern Baptist congregation (her parents are first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic). Discovering rock and roll changed her life and her journey to Memphis began with everything that followed. With her blazing white Gibson SG, she evokes the sanctified power of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Close your eyes and you may think you’re listening to Mahalia Jackson backed by Dick Dale and Pop Staples. Liz thrives here in her adopted home. Her most recent studio effort, Outcast, recorded and mixed here in Memphis, was just released this past April to critical acclaim on Fat Possum Records.

The setting for this video is tucked away amidst an old Memphis neighborhood set off of South Parkway. A neighborhood historically reserved for the upper and middle class African-American families in Memphis. But this home is a bit smaller than it’s more stately neighbors. Set back from the street and surrounded by a canopy of trees, no one would blame you if you’d never noticed it before. It’s a funky, quiet, little spot, concealing the fact that one of the greatest superstars of Memphis music once called this place home. A small, single-level home, with an open floor plan and a sunken living area. Wood paneling all around. It’s all still there, including the original, custom shelving built to accommodate hundreds of vinyl records. It just oozes cool. It’s the former home of Isaac Hayes, Stax Records staff songwriter, producer, and resident genius. If these walls could talk, imagine the stories they would tell.

Director – Christian Walker
Produced by Waheed AlQawasmi “WA Films”
Cinematographer – Jordan Danelz
Camera Operator/Editor – Jared B. Callan

Special thanks to Pigeon Roost Collaborative and Inherent Media.

 

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#2234 – 2018 Blues Music Awards

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This week on the program we celebrate the biggest night in blues, The 2018 Blues Music Awards. Performances on the episode include winners of the emerging artist category, Southern Avenue; and Memphis music heroes, The North MS Allstars featuring Sharde Thomas.

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Motel Mirrors – I Wouldn’t Dream Of It

BSC is proud to expand its mission and introduce I Listen To Memphis – a new weekly video series filmed in culturally relevant spaces. 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, inspire, and share the best of Memphis music.

Want an early look at next week’s video before anyone else? Join ILTM. 

The Memphis sound is warm and abiding. There’s a jump in the rhythms, a slyness to the lyrics, and a sweetness to the tones that you can’t find anywhere else. Motel Mirrors reach back in time to the height of Sam Phillip’s powers at Sun Records and they carry these qualities forward into the modern day, treating rockabilly, country, swing, and other genres as parts of a whole. Three of the city’s most beloved solo artists, Amy LaVere, John Paul Keith, and Will Sexton, as formidable as they are on their own, come together out of a mutual devotion to timeless song craft and genuine, spirited performance. The results are stunning and can be heard on their brand new release, In The Meantime, recorded and mixed to analog tape at Scott Bomar’s Electraphonic Studios.

Galloway House, a former United Methodist church, sits near the intersection of Cooper and Young, projecting serenity into the heart of an ever-changing midtown Memphis. For well over a century, the space has served the Cooper-Young community and ministered to the spiritual needs of thousands of Memphians. It seems every neighborhood in Memphis has played a pivotal role in the history of music and this spot is no different. On a cold December day in 1954, neighborhood musicians J.R. Cash, Marshall Grant, and Luther Perkins came to Galloway and performed for a church fundraiser. It was Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two’s very first public performance. Within months, they were signed to Sun Records and the single “Cry! Cry! Cry!” was climbing the charts.

Director – Christian Walker
Produced by Waheed AlQawasmi “WA Films”
Cinematographer – Jordan Danelz Camera
Operator/Editor – Jared B. Callan

Special thanks to Pigeon Roost Collaborative and Inherent Media.

 

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#2233 – Ameripolitan Music Awards

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This week we feature highlights from Dale Watson’s 2018 Ameripolitan Music Awards, held right here in Memphis.

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Cedric Burnside — Wash My Hands

BSC is proud to expand its mission and introduce ILTM – a new weekly video series filmed in culturally relevant spaces. 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, inspire, and share the best of Memphis music.

Cedric Burnside is one of the greatest drummers alive today.The Grammy-nominated artist is the living embodiment of the Hill Country blues, learning the music under the watchful ears and eyes of his grandfather, blues legend RL Burnside.

No place exudes as much Memphis mystique and vibe as Royal Studios. Established in 1956, this temple of sound is one of the oldest continuously operated music recording studios in the world. Producer Willie Mitchell, Architect of the Memphis Sound, crafted countless hits for Hi Records in the 60’s and 70’s, including seven, consecutive, gold records for Al Green. The studio carries on today under the talents of Grammy-winner Boo Mitchell and scored another chart-topper with Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.”

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Director – Christian Walker

Produced by Waheed AlQawasmi “WA Films”

Cinematographer – Jordan Danelz

Camera Operator/Editor – Jared B. Callan

Special thanks to Pigeon Roost Collaborative and Inherent Media.

 

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#2232 – Sons of Mudboy

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This week we feature the mysterious, inscrutable, ever changing Sons of Mudboy.

Also joining us will be BSC contributor, Jim Spake, exploring the legendary sidemen from the early years of rock and roll that played rock’s original lead instrument in a series called “Crazy About a Saxophone.”

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#2231 – John Paul Keith

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This week we feature beloved Memphis songwriter, guitarslinger, and bandleader, John Paul Keith.

Also joining us will be BSC contributor, Jim Spake, exploring the legendary sidemen from the early years of rock and roll that played rock’s original lead instrument in a series called, “Crazy About a Saxophone.”

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