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The Voyager’s Rest: Where Water Valley’s Music Comes Alive

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By Scott Barretta
| thelocalvoice.net
Justin Showah at The Voyager's Rest in Water Valley, Mississippi. Photograph by Faith Neenan. The Voyager’s Rest in Water Valley has offered live music since February of 2023. After a summer break, The Voyager’s Rest reopens on September 18 with the Georgia-based blues group Cash’s Juke Joint, who draw upon the Sacred Steel slide guitar tradition.
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100 Years of R.L. Burnside: The Sound, Legacy, and Staying Power of Hill Country Blues

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By Scott Barretta
| thelocalvoice.net
Illustration by Megan Wolfe. Today if you ask blues fans to list their top artists, it’s likely that R.L. Burnside, whose centennial birthday will be this November, will be frequently mentioned.
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Book explores the African Americans who made Elvis ‘the King’

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By Scott Barretta
| Mississippi Today Verified
The notion that Elvis derived much of his musical, performative and sartorial style from African Americans is hardly new, and neither are the debates about whether this involved inspiration, borrowing or appropriation. Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan.
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