We are burying Tom Freeland today. His death resulted from complications from major surgery, and like most of his friends and family, I am hard-pressed to...
Morgan Freeman is at home at the large table at Ground Zero Blues Club. It’s lunch time at the popular juke joint he shares with friend...
Umphrey’s McGee is a big deal. I realized this in 2011 when I saw them on Feb. 11 at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado. I...
A Q&A With Neuter Cooter on the 20th Anniversary of Oxford’s Heaviest Band In 1994, after giving it a go in other bands, three boys who...
Oxford native and musician Jimbo Mathus is back on tour, and this time he is bringing new music with him. Mathus released his newest album Dark...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Bill Perry Jr. — Lamar Lounge 6 to 8:30 (Happy Hour) Lil B is all grown up and tickling the ivories with...
He is Oxford’s king of raw-edged, urgent rock ‘n’ roll at its finest—and loudest. But there are probably many who have never had the good fortune...
Jess Dickinson is the presiding justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. As he maintains peace in the courtroom with sharp raps from his gavel, he...
One of Oxford’s adopted sons is leaving the nest next week. Local bartender Ian Burnett is spreading his take on the Mississippi Blues to Germany…and beyond!...
He was born Robert Lee Burnside on November 23, 1926 at Harmontown in Lafayette County, near Oxford. R.L. Burnside was an American blues singer, songwriter...