Don your dashiki for this tribal performance by South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir. The 26-member group performs traditional and contemporary African gospel, Negro spirituals, and even reggae.
Hard to believe, but on January 8, 2010, Elvis Presley would have turned 75. Almost as hard to believe is the fact that George Klein, a friend of Presley's since their student days at Humes High School and a well-known radio and television personality in Memphis for decades, has spoken often enough of that friendship, but he's never written about it — until now, with
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As a vibrant decade in Memphis music comes to an end, a look back via one critic's choices for the 10 best Memphis music albums of the past 10 years.
By Chris Herrington | January 1, 2010
Too Much Love — Harlan T. Bobo (Goner, 2005): At the time a sideman in the Midtown band Viva L'American Death Ray Music, Bobo shocked the Memphis scene with this solo debut, first self-released in rare copies in personally handcrafted packages before local label Goner gave it a proper release. Too Much Love is an accessible but unnervingly intimate collection of songs tracking one delicate but troubled romance.
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