Steve Azar was born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi at the entrance to the Mississippi Delta. His mother was raised above the family grocery store located on Highway 61 in Clarksdale, MS near the infamous “Crossroads”. “The Crossroads” is the intersection of Route 61 and Route 49, or the 61/49 split as they call it there, in...
Kallie North didn’t begin writing music until 2010 after graduating from college and moving from her home state of Texas to the Mississippi Delta. A diehard country music fan and creative soul from birth, she picked up a guitar and within months had written a dozen songs. She recalls the feelings of inspiration that opened her eyes to...
A few years ago I returned from a decade in Nashville to my home in the Texas Hill Country. Its an area of limestone cliffs overlooking modest mesquite and juniper trees, along with majestic, matronly live oaks. There’s a dozen meandering blue-green rivers, with great bald cypress and cottonwood trees on their banks, and Bar-b-que, and...
Growing up between the Ohio River Basin of Warsaw, Kentucky and the Appalachian Foothills of Union, Ohio taught Dave about both the hardships and triumphs of life. That area is also where he learned about all the diverse musical styles that still come through in his own music today. Hill music, country, bluegrass, twang, flat-top pickin’...
A new festival with food and music all rolled up in three days of fun and simmered under an August sun joins the Jackson calendar. The Southern Crossroads Music and Tamale Festival, brainchild of Pat LeBlanc, host of the syndicated radio show Southern Crossroads, is set for Aug. 10-12 at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds. Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. praised the coming showcase of music, art and the tamale, and plans to get in on the...
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