Blog: The Vinyl District

Alright, let’s return to crackpot opinion, fact fudging, and outright lies this time after my sentimental and painfully sincere piece on Ardent Studios and John Fry a couple of weeks back.  I think there is a curse on Memphis that spreads a collective blight over everything that happens here, particularly in the realm of music making. Some say the Chickasaw Indians placed a curse on Memphis when they ceded the land to the United States Government in 1818. Others trace the curse to institutionalized economic racism that saw Africans disembarking from the Middle Passage [...]