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MY FAVORITE CONCERTS AND LIVE MUSIC EVENTS IN 2023: ● 1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band “15 shows on European Leg of 2023 Tour” (Dusseldorf, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vienna, Munich, Monza) ● 2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band “5 shows on 2nd U.S. Leg of 2023 Tour” (Chicago & E. Rutherford, NJ) ● 3. British Summer Time ft. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Billy Joel,…
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Bruce Springsteen – Favorite Music Artist of the Year; Favorite Concert Tour of the Year; Favorite Original Song from a Movie “Addicted To Romance” (from the motion picture She Came To Me). Johnny Cole’s 2023 Music Awards: ● MUSIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (based on the 2023 World Tour) ● MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Bruce Springsteen ● FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: (a tie) Lucinda Williams, and…
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By Deborah Chatham Photos by Stephen Anderson Piney Woods Country Life School, located just 21 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, hardly sounds like the name of a school based on music education. However, the school boasts a rich, historical connection to the education and development of many notable Mississippi music artists. The founder and first president of Piney Woods School, Laurence C. Jones, envisioned an educational program that emphasized classroom…
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By Deborah ChathamPhotographs by Stephen Anderson The Southland Music Line made a recent trip to the Mississippi Songwriters’ Festival – Delta Edition. We gained firsthand access to several blues artists and continued in our quest to explore and photograph blues markers for our Blues Trail series. If there is one thing we took away from this trip, it is that Mississippi may be the birthplace of the blues, but the blues…
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By Johnny Cole Photos by Stephen Anderson Since 2019, The Mississippi Songwriters Hall of Fame has inducted and paid tribute to many of music’s premiere songwriting talent who have roots in the state that lays claim to being the “Birthplace of America’s Music.” On Thursday, September 21, 2023, the Hall of Fame honored its latest class of inductees, who joined a distinguished and stellar group of Mississippians who have already been inducted into the Hall…
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By Johnny ColePhotos by Stephen Anderson On the evening of Thursday, September 28, 2023, The Parlour On Lorraine was the setting for the inaugural “Secrets of the South Songwriters Series,” a live music event featuring three talented songwriters: Cary Laine, Katie Jones, and Summerlyn Powers. The “Secrets of the South Songwriters Series,” promoted by Terry McCormack and TFM Entertainment is the year-old brainchild of McCormack and Laine. It has the…
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By Johnny ColePhotos by Stephen Anderson Earlier this summer, word began to circulate across the Gulf Coast music scene about an electrifying new trio put together by Jimmy Lumpkin. We at The Southland Music Line were enthusiastic to see Lumpkin’s newly formed trio perform, so we began looking for an opportunity to hear them live. Stephen “Andy” Anderson, photographer for “The Line,” was able to see and photograph the guys…
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By Johnny Cole The recent Pretenders’ concert at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey has inspired me to reflect on the band’s incredible history. It’s a good time to be a Pretenders fan because they are back with their twelfth studio album, Relentless, their first LP in three years. Presently, Chrissie Hynde and company are also touring in support of the new album (released on Sept. 1, 2023).…
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Photos by Stephen AndersonCommentary by Johnny Cole The Southland Music Line wants to take this occasion to remember Jimmy Buffett, who we lost on this Labor Day weekend. Jimmy Buffett, singer-songwriter, best-selling author, and successful entrepreneur, was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi on Christmas Day in 1946. Buffett was 76 at the time of his passing. Truthfully, there was and will only be one Jimmy Buffett. Shocked Parrot Heads, Buffett’s huge and devoted…
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By Deborah Chatham Photos by Stephen Anderson Edited by Johnny Cole The Southland Music Line continues our Mississippi Blues Trail Series at the marker recognizing Po’ Monkey’s Lounge, an authentic juke joint, located outside of Merigold, Mississippi in an unincorporated area of Bolivar County. The history of the juke joint in Mississippi is essential to understanding the development of the blues. Juke joints were created by using existing buildings and…
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