W.C. Handy Music Festival, Florence, Alabama, July 22-29
“If Beale Street could talk
Married men would have to take up their beds and walk…”
Beale Street Blues
W. C. Handy wrote those words when he was living in Memphis in 1916. It had been a long road from Florence, Alabama, to Memphis, Tennessee, only about a hundred miles as the crow flies, but Handy had arrived, horn in hand,
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