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Sound Advice

Harmonica maestro Billy Gibson is a multiple Premier Player Award winner and in-demand session player, having appeared most recently on bluesman Michael Burks’ Memphis-recorded, Handy-nominated I Smell Smoke album. He is also on a currently broadcast television commercial for Chili’s restaurants. But this week he does his own thing with a release party for his […]

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Sound Advice

Twentysomething singer-songwriter and classically trained musician Clare Burson is a onetime Memphian now based in Nashville. But don’t let the Nashville connection give you the wrong idea about what she sounds like. Burson’s folky, acoustic-driven songs don’t really have much of a country feel. Musically, she has as much in common with indie-rock busker Mary […]

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Mayor of the Council

To really appreciate the rift between the City Council and Mayor Herenton, you have to know what a normal city nomination hearing is like. Usually it goes like this: The nominee comes to a committee meeting and tells committee members (rarely more than three or four council members) his or her name, background, and what […]

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