Blues musician and Beale Street legend Earl “The Pearl” Banks has died. The venerable guitarist and bandleader was 89. News of Banks’ passing was confirmed on his official Facebook page. He had been ...

Memphis, Tennessee is pulling out all the stops for what would have been the 100th birthday of Riley B. King—better known as B.B. King—the King of the Blues. The two-day celebration that blends live ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every Tuesday, as part of our Greater Memphis on a Mission series, we highlight organizations making Memphis better. This week, we caught up with a group that believes in preserving, ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot peppers. side 1: Beale Street Blues; side 2: The Pearls (Bluebird B-10252). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1927 and released on Victor 20948. Rust, ...

Every day he has the blues, and a hundred and some-odd days from now he’ll be bringing them to CityPlace. “He” is Riley B. King, aka Beale Street Blues Boy, aka Blues Boy King, aka B.B. King, and the ...