Saturday Nights mean Music in the Folklore Store.

The Bluff City Backsliders formed in 1999 around several veteran Memphis musicians who shared a hankering for great old sounds from the pre - World War II era.  They found between them a hearty repertoire of early jazz, jug band, old-time country, and proto-bluegrass tunes that cried out to be resurrected.  These almost forgotten songs morphed into a high-powered, hip-shaking, barrelhouse hoodoo music that's as profane as it is glorious.  At bottom, it's a wholly Southern musical sound, reaching from Memphis to Appalachia and all the way down to New Orleans, often all at once.  Performing with a back-porch soul and the ferocity of the best punk bands, the band adds a new-fangled sensibility and some youthful energy to a deep heritage.

Catch the unique rhythms of the South or be surprised and find a visitor stopping by to play a tune.  

Beer and light food avaiable while you listen...

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