The Blues Society: When Musical Worlds Collide

The Memphis documentary opens May 31 at Studio on the Square.


Bukka White and Jimmy Crosthwait onstage at the the Overton Park Shell in The Blues Society. (Photo: Randall Lyon | courtesy of The Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane)

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