While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing " many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more.

The Memphis Jug Band, an early blues group, whose lyrical content and rhythmic singing predated rapping.

Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Robert Johnson as well as Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band.

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

Memphis is the home of founders and establishers of various American music genres, including Memphis soul, Memphis blues, gospel, rock n ' roll, Buck, crunk, and " sharecropper " country music ( in contrast to the " rhinestone " country sound of Nashville ).

Beale Street is a national historical landmark, and shows the impact Memphis has had on American blues, particularly after World War II as electric guitars took precedence.

Beginning in the urban south, they played a mixture of Memphis blues ( even before it was formally called the blues ), ragtime, and jazz music.

The well known Memphis jug bands were small street groups, performing generally on Beale Street, and had their own blues style, using guitar, harmonica, banjo and a jug to accompany their blues and dance songs.

The Memphis area jug bands were more firmly rooted in country blues and earlier African-American traditions.

Since 1989, she has released nine studio albums to critical acclaim, her most recent 2010's Memphis Blues which became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number 1 for 13 consecutive weeks.

A full-length virtuoso guitar showpiece employing both the blues scale and distortion, Mack's " Memphis " ushered in the era of blues-rock guitar, a genre which reached its zenith in the later recordings of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

They covered blues, R & B, soul, country and rock ' n ' roll songs, but with their own particular, fresh and raw style of interpretation, a successful blend of the Memphis Stax sound provided by MGs band members Steve Cropper and Donald " Duck " Dunn, and the New York City sound from the horn section ( Alan Rubin and Lou Marini, for example ).

Handy publishes " The Memphis Blues ", one of the first blues songs to become a hit.

After the votes of more than 30, 000 international blues fans and industry professionals, on May 22, 2003 Burke won four Living Blues Awards in a ceremony at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee: Critics ' Award for Most Outstanding Musician ( Vocals ), Readers ' Award for Best Live Performer, Readers ' Award for Most Outstanding Blues Singer, and Album of the Year for Don't Give Up on Me.

The members of the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up in Memphis, Tennessee, to foster the blues and its heritage, have nominated James for a Blues Music Award nearly every year since its founding in 1980 ; and she has received some form of Blues Female Artist of the Year award 14 times since 1989, continuously from 1999 to 2007.

One year after Rainey's death, blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie recorded a tribute.

" She was the niece of blues singer Merline Johnson and was also related to Memphis Minnie.

Memphis Minnie ( June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973 ) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

One of the first generation of blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis blues to produce her own unique country-blues sound ; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the way for Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north.

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

Even when he is on the way to Memphis you will still have the promise resting inside you like a gift, and it is he inside of you.

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.

Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ) is an ecumenical organization that brings together ten mainline American denominations ( including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches ), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, TN on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

There are also recordings featuring the harmonica in jug bands, of which the Memphis Jug Band is the most famous.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States.

For comparison, note that traditional first-past-the-post would elect Memphis, even though most citizens consider it the worst choice, because 42 % is larger than any other single city.

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

Given that the decree was issued at Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt, rather than Alexandria, the centre of government of the ruling Ptolemies, it is evident that the young king was anxious to gain their active support.

" 100 Miles from Memphis ( released July 20 on A & M Records ), the distance from her hometown to the music mecca, is an ode to her formative memories of music-and one that the label hopes can inspire young music fans to investigate the landscape beyond processed pop and Auto-Tune.

Tennessee is known for its country ham and Memphis, TN is known for several famous barbecue restaurants and a major barbecue cooking competition held in May.

** Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

* c. 3100 BC — According to the legend, Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis.

Dunavant Enterprises, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the leading cotton broker in Africa, with hundreds of purchasing agents.

Memphis barbecue is best known for tomato-and vinegar-based sauces.

In some Memphis establishments and in Kentucky, meat is rubbed with dry seasoning ( dry rubs ) and smoked over hickory wood without sauce ; the finished barbecue is then served with barbecue sauce on the side.

A popular item in North Carolina and Memphis is the pulled pork sandwich served on a bun and often topped with coleslaw.

* The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is held annually in Memphis, Tennessee, during the Memphis in May festival.

The massive tombs consisted of mud-brick walls and the style of the structure imitated a palace portico probably to mimic Djoser ’ s palace in Memphis where he lived at one point in his life.

Tennessee-based Jake Leg Stompers continue the traditional Memphis style.

Memphis soul is a shimmering, sultry style of soul music produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee.

Her marriage and recording début came in 1929, to and with Kansas Joe McCoy, when a Columbia Records talent scout heard them playing in a Beale Street barbershop in their distinctive ' Memphis style ,' and their song " Bumble Bee " became a hit.

The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows, and was associated with Memphis ' main entertainment area, Beale Street.

The Memphis blues musician Junior Parker and his electric blues band, Little Junior's Blue Flames, featuring Pat Hare on the guitar, were a major influence on the rockabilly style, particularly with their songs " Love My Baby " and " Mystery Train " in 1953.

Along with Detroit, the home of Motown, and Memphis, with its hard-edged, gritty performers ( see Memphis soul ), Chicago and the Chicago soul style helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s.

Crunk, or Krunk, is a music style that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-to-late 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003 – 04.

The list of Style Manuals & Guides, from the University of Memphis Libraries, includes thirty academic style manuals that are currently in print, and twelve that are available on-line.

* Memphis style article from the NY times 2007.

He is best known as one of original members of the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia and for his melodic ' fast-rapping ' style similar to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

Her unique style reflected those secular influences: she bent notes the way that blues and rock artists did and picked guitar like Memphis Minnie.

Hip hop fashion, also known as urban fashion is a distinctive style of dress originating with African American youth on the scene of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, Memphis, Virginia, Atlanta, and St. Louis among others.

The University of Memphis campus is set out in a rectilinear format, planned as a geometric design similar to the Jeffersonian style of the University of Virginia.

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In 2012 The Bo-Keys recorded a Memphis Soul style version for a fund raising cd titled " Super Hits Of The Seventies " for radio station WFMU.

In 1977 and 1979, Alex Chilton, attracted by The Cramps ' feral, flamboyant rockabilly style, had brought them to Memphis to record sessions he produced that were later released as Gravest Hits and Songs the Lord Taught Us.

Elvis Presley's recordings in American Sound Studio were a direct consequence to ' 68 Comeback Special, that interested Chips Moman in produce recordings to the new style of Presley, making his comeback to the Memphis musical scene, by recording rock, gospel, country, rhythm & blues and soul.