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Absalom, Absalom!
Ace Records
Alec
Alexander, James
Alexander, Mike
Allen, Ray
Allen, Steve
Allman, Duane
Allman Brothers
American Studio
Anderson, Barbara
Andrews, Mary Lindsay
Anita Kerr Singers
Anthology of American Folk Music
Ardent Records
Arnault, Phil
Arnold, Satch
Atkins, Chet
Atlantic Records
Autry, Gene
Axton, Estelle
Axton, Packy
“Baby Let’s Play House”
“Back for More”
Baez, Joan
Baird, George
Baird, Jimmy
Baker, Lee
Baker, (Old Man) Paul
Baker, Two Ton
Barrett, Nancy
Barth, Bill
“Battle of New Orleans”
Baylor University
Beale Street
Beard, George
Beat, the
Beauregard, Nathan
Beavers, Virgil
Bechet, Sidney
Behan, Brendan
Belz, Saul
Ben Branch and the Largos
Benton, Brook
Berry, Chuck
Berry, Jim
Bhiari, Les
Big Daddy Pat and His How Brown Boys
Bill Black Combo
Billboard
Binford, Lloyd T.
Bitter Lemon
Bitter Lemon Jug Band
Black, Bill
“Black Cat Bone”
Black Like Me
Black musicians
Black Oak Arkansas
“Black Snake Moan”
Blaine, Hal
Blind Lemon
“Blue Suede Shoes”
Bobby and the Originals
Booker T. and the MGs
Boomer’s Story
Booth, Stanley
Bostic, Earl
Bowdin, Kenneth
Bowers, Harry
Boyden, Jack
Bradford, Jan
Bramlett, Delaney
Branch, Ben
Brando, Marlon
Brontë, Bramwell
Brooker, Bob “the Bear”
Broonzy, Big Bill
Brown, Charlie
Brown, Ray
Browney, Robert
Browning, James Lee
Bullet
Bunn, Sharon
Burch, Lucia
Burnette, Johnny and Dorsey
Burns, Ed
Burse, Charlie
Burse (Good Kid)
Burton, James
Cabooch, Tony
Campbell, Floyd “Tex”
Cannon, Ace
Cannon, Gus
Capitol Records
Capricorn Record
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carter, A. P.
Carter, Fred
Carter, Norwood
Carter Family
Cash, Eddie
Cash, Johnny
Cash, Roy
Cash Box
Charles, Roy
Charters, Samuel B.
Cheatham, Maree
Cherry, Ruben
Chicago Herald Tribune
Children’s Songs and Stories
Child’s Book of Ballads
Chrisman, Gene
Clapton, Eric
Clark, Petula
Clayton, Emmer
Clayton, Jennie Mae
Coburn, Kimball
Cogbill, Tommy
Cohen, Leonard. See Kollis, Ed
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Albert
“Come On Down to My House”
Cooder, Ry
Cooke, Sam
Cotton Carnival
Count Basie
Country Blues, The
Country Cowboys
Craft, Paul
Cramer, Floyd
Creason, Claudia
Crews, Don
Criteria Studios
Cropper, Steve
Crosthwait, Jimmy
Crump, “Boss” E. H.
Crump, Metcalf
Cunningham, Carl Lee
Cuoghi, Joe
Curtis, King
“Cute”
Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times
Dave Brubeck Trio
Davis, Jesse Ed
Davis, Miles
Dean, Dizzy
Dean, James
Dearborn Village
Del Rios
Derek and the Dominoes
Diamond Match Co.
Dickinson, Almeron
Dickinson, Big Jim
Dickinson, Charles
Dickinson, Cody
Dickinson, Jimmy Dick
Dickinson, John
Dickinson, Luther
Dickinson, Martha Huddleston
Dickinson, Mary Lindsay. See Andrews, Mary Lindsay
Dickinson, Tom
Diddley, Bo
Dion and the Belmonts
Dishrag
Dixie Flyers
Dixie Fried
Dolphy, Eric
Donati
“Don’t Play That Song”
Dorsey, Tommy
Doug Kelly and the B Team
Douglas, Sharon
Dover, Billy
Dowd, Tom
Drifting Cowboys
Driftwood Jimmy
drugs
Duke, “Little Bit” Laura
Dunn, Duck
Durante, Jimmy
Dylan, Bob
Eggleston, Bill
Electric Blue Watermelon
Electric Circus
Ellis Auditorium
Ellison, Ralph
Elvis on Memphis
EMI
Emmons, Bobby
Ertegun, Ahmet
Estes, Sleepy John
Ethridge, Chris
Eudaly, Andy
Fahey, John
Faithfull, Marianne
Faulkner, William
Fernwood
Fisher, Bob
Fitts, Ray
folk music
Foote, Shelby
Foster, Fred
Frank, Bob
Franklin, Aretha
Fred and the Hunter Chapel Singers
Freeman, Charlie
Fry, John
Fuller, “Lone Cat”
“Funky Broadway”
Funky Down Home
Galuten, Albhy
“Gambler”
Gardner, Warren
Gaston, Joe
Gentrys
Gimme Shelter
Good Kid
Graceland
Graflund, Danny
Grand Ol’ Opry
Greaves, R. B.
Greenhill, Mitch
Greer, Roosevelt
Guilloteens
Guthrie, Arlo
Hale, Jimbo
“Half Way Down the Stairs”
Hall, Billy
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
Handy, Bubba
Handy, W. C. See also W. C. Handy Band
“Harlem Nocturne”
Harris, Phil
Harrison, Guy B.
Harwood, Ophelia
Hawkins, Dale “Susie Q”
Hawkins, Ronnie
Hayes, Betty
Hayes, Gabby
Heath, Colin
Heath, Kay
Hefti, Neal
Heinz, Charles
Hendricks, Jimi
Hepburn, Audrey
Hess, Sam
“Hey Bo Diddley”
“Hey Jude”
Hiatt, John
Hill, Smilin’ Eddie
“Hip Pocket”
Hi Records
Hit Parader
Holliday, Billie
Home of the Blues
Hood, Hooker
Hooker, John Lee
Horton, Ramsey
Howl
Howlin’ Wolf
Hubbad, Edwin
Huddleston, Dave
Huddleston, Huddie
Huddleston, Pappy
Hudlow, Sandra
Hughes, Langston
Hull, Charlie
Hull, Horace
Hullabaloo
Hunky Dory
Hunter, Ivory Joe
Hurley, John
“I Hear a Rhapsody”
“I’m Movin’ On”
integration
Ireland, Rick
Ironing Board Sam
“I Was the One”/“Heartbreak Hotel”
Jack Benny Program, The
Jackson, Al, Jr.
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Wayne
Jagger, Bianca
Jagger, Mick
James, Elmore
James, Skip
Janes, Roland
Jarry, Alfred
Jazz on a Summer Day
Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Jefferson Airplane
Jeffries, Nancy
Jennings, Waylon
Jensen, Carol
Jesters, the
Jetton, Walton
Jim Dickinson Combo
Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band
Johnny and Joe
Johnny Rotten
Johnson, Jimmy
Johnson, Terry
Jolson, Al
Jones, Brian
Jordanaires
jug bands. See also individual bands
Jug Stompers
Junker Club
Justis, Bill
Kansas City Bill and Orchestra
Karstein, Jimmy
Katmandu Quartet
Kaye, Carol
Kaye, Lenny
“Keep on Dancing”
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, John F.
Kensinger, Campbell
Kerouac, Jack
Kesler, Stan
Keyes, “Bongo” Johnny
Killen, Buddy
King, Albert
King, B. B.
King, John
Kinnane, Big Jim
Klein, George
Kline, Franz
Knott, Bob
Knowbody Else
Kollis, Ed
KWEM
Laban, Juana de
Ladd, Mike
Lane, Frankie
Lapworth, Sid
LaRue, Lash
“Last Night”
Last of My Solid Gold Watches, The
Lateef, Yusef
LaVette, Betty
Lawson, Bobby
Lawson and Four More
Lee, Brenda
Levant, Oscar
LeVere, Amy
Lewis, Furry
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, L. T.
Lipscomb, Mance
Little Richard
Logan, John
Long Day’s Journey into Night
“Love of the Common People”
Lulu
Lyon, Randall
Madison, Bill
Mad Lads
Mangrum, Jim
Manker, Sid
Manning, Terry
Manuel, Bobby
Marcus, Greil
Mar-Keys
Martha Jean the Queen
Martindale, Wink
Marx, Groucho
Matassa, Cosimo
Matthews, Parks
Mazretti, Chico
McCarthy, Gene
McClure, Tommy
McDowell, Mississippi Fred
McGill, Jerry
McGinnis, Dorothy
McIntire, John
McPhatter, Clyde
McRae, Carmen
Meaux, Huey
Melody Fair
Memphis Country Blues Festival
Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Minnie
Memphis Music Hall of Fame
Memphis State University
Mercury/Smash Records
Miller, Gene “Bowlegs”
Miller, Roger
Mills Brothers
Minga, Tommy
Mingus, Charles
Mitchell, William
“Mojo Man”
Moman, Laurie
Moman, Lincoln Wayne “Chips”
“Money Honey”
“Monkey Man”
Monroe, Sputnik
Monument Records
Moody, Sarah
Moondog
Moore, Bob
Moore, Ronnie
Moore, Scotty
Morton, Grady
Moss, Anne
Motown Records
“Mr. Bojangles”
Mud Boy and the Neutrons
Muddy Waters
Murphy, Mike
Muscle Shoals Studio
Musselwhite, Charles
NAACP
Nash, Dr.
Neil, Stanley
Nelson, Clarence
Nelson, Ricky
New Beale Street Sheiks
Newman, Floyd
Newport, Bill
Nicholson, Gimmer
Nix, Don
North Mississippi Allstars
Oden, T. J.
Of Poems, Youth, and Spring
Old Trappy
Olswanter, Berl
O’Mell, Herbie
O’Neill, Eugene
On the Road
Onyx Studio
Oso
“Over the Mountain, Across the Sea”
Oxfeu Negro
Paige, Teddy
Palmer, Robert
Paregoric Blues Band
Paris, Texas
Pauling, Lowman
performance art
Pete and Repeat
Pharaohs, the
Phillips, Dewey (Daddy-o)
Phillips, Jerry
Phillips, Knox
Phillips, “Little” Esther
Phillips, Sam
Piano Red
Pickett, Wilson
Plantation Inn
Posey, Sandy
Presley, Elvis
Presley, Vester
primitive modernism
Purcell, Bill
Rain Summer
Ramsey Horton and the K-otics
Ramspacker, Dorothy
Randolph, Boots
Raspberry, Larry
“Raunchy”
Rayfield, Lou
R&B charts
RCA
recording contracts
Redding, Otis
Red Robie
Reed, Alvin
Reed, Jimmy
Regents
Reliable Jubilee Singers
Remley, Frank
Replacements, the
Rich, Charlie
Richards, Keith
Rider, Ivan
Riley, Billy Lee
Rimbaud, Arthur
Ritter, Tex
Robinson, Lisa
Robinson, Richard
“Rockin’ with Red”
rock ’n’ roll
Rodgers, Jimmie
Rodman, Tommy
Rogers, Kenny
Rogers, Leland
Roland, Bill
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones
Rose, Axl
Rose, Sy
Rosenberg, Seymour
Rosenthal, Gene
Rossum, Leon
Royal Spades
Russell, Leon
Sam and Dave
Sam Phillips Studio. See Sun Records
Satellite (“Stax”) Records
Scaggs, Boz
“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
Selvidge, Sid
Shade, Will
“Shake ’Em On Down”
Shannon, Bookmiller
Shifters
Shindig
Shondell, Troy
Simmons, John
Simmons, “Jumpin’” Gene
Sinatra, Frank
Singleton, Shelby
Sire Records
Sketches of Spain
Skinner, B. F.
Sky, Patrick
Smith, Fred
Smith, Harry
Smith, Patti
Smith, Smoochy
Smith, Warren
Snow, Hank
Soldiers of the Cross
Sonic Studio
“Sophisticated Lady”
Sounds of Memphis Studio
Sounds of Summer
South, Joe
Spector, Phil
Spirit in the Dark
“Spread It On Thick”
Stamps, Al
Steady Eddie
Steinberg, Lewis
Stewart, Jim
“St. James Infirmary Blues”
Stoots, Ronnie
“Stormy Monday”
“Strange Things Happening Every Day”
Sun Records
Taj Mahal
“Take Five”
Tauber, Eddie. See Steady Eddie
Teal, Alec
Teal, Barbara
Ted Mack Amateur Hour
Tharpe, Sr. Rosetta
“This Time”
Thomas, Carla
Thomas, Rufus
Thomas Pinkston Trio
Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Man”
Tidwell, George
Tiger Rag
Time Out of Mind
Times They Are A Changin’, The
Toots and the Maytals
“To Sir With Love”
Tree Publishing
T. Rex
True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Tucker Street Band
Turner, Ike
Turner, Otha
Turner, Tina
Turner, Wild Charlie “Tennessee”
“Tutti Fruitti”
“Twist, The”
Unobsky, Mark
Unobsky, Mary
Vera
Vernon, Les
Vincent, Gene “Be-Bop-A-Lula”
Vincent, Johnny
Vinson, Jim
Walden, Phil
Walker, Jerry Jeff
Warm and Tender
Warner/Reprise Records
Watts, Charlie
Wayne, Thomas
W. C. Handy Band
WDIA
Weary Blues, The
Weiss, Donna
Wenner, Jan
West, Mae
Wexler, Jerry
“What’d I Say
WHBQ
Where’s Charley?
Whiskey Chute
Whistle in the Night
White, Bukka
White, Tony Joe
“Wild Horses”
Wilkens, Ronnie
Wilkerson, Bailey
Williams, “Big Joe”
Williams, Hank
Williams, Merrell
Williams, Tennessee
Williamson, Sonny Boy
Wimmer, Chris
Winston, Tom
WLAC
WLOK
Wolfe, Thomas
Wood, Anton
Woody, Bobby
“Wooly Bully”
Wyman, Bill
“You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog”
Young, Lewis
Young Reggie
“Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Zebra Ranch Recording Studio