August 02, 2007 News » Cover Feature

Blue Heaven 

Rediscovering Jimmie Lunceford.

by Preston Lauterbach
This is our year of musical remembrance. Stax is 50. The King's been gone for 30 years. Forty years ago this December, Otis Redding and four harmonious young Memphians known as the Bar-Kays died in a plane crash. This year also marks…

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