Episode 2920.1 | West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center | Tennessee Crossroads
You know our 3-star Tennessee state flag represents Eastern, Middle and Western regions of the state while each is proud of its own heritage, Tennessee Crossroads' Ken Wilshire says Middle and West Tennessee are joined by what's now called what other than Music Highway. It's actually Interstate 40 between Nashville, TN and Memphis, TN, and when Ken stopped at exit 56 near Brownsville he discovered an amazing place that honors its musical roots with 5-star flair. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more.
Mayor Rawls at West TN Delta Heritage Center
July 31 2015 Mayor Rawls stating the purpose of the West TN Delta Heritage Center
Exit56 Blues Fest Promo
The Exit 56 Blues Fest is an annual event held on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend each year. It celebrates the Blues pioneers such as Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon and Yank Rachell, all from Brownsville, Tennessee. The festival is held at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville and all musicians play from the porch of the Sleepy John Estes home located on the grounds.
Tina Turner's Schoolhouse Turned Into Museum
The rural Tennessee one-room schoolhouse where Tina Turner went to school has been transformed into a museum honoring the soul singer. The West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center is opening the exhibit inside the Flagg Grove school in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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#ServingTN With Sonia Outlaw-Clark
Sonia Outlaw-Clark has been the executive director of the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, Tennessee since 2010. The Center is home to five museums: the Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School, West Tennessee Cotton Museum, West Tennessee Music Museum, Hatchie River Museum, John Adam Estes Home and the Felsenthal Lincoln Collection. It also recently hosted the first stop for the Tennessee State Museum’s traveling exhibit, I Have a Voice: Tennessee’s African American Musical Heritage. During the installation and opening of the exhibit, we asked Outlaw-Clark about how the Tennessee State Museum has served the Heritage Center, and the role it’s played in her career. #ServingTN
068 Sleepy John Estes Blues Jam
West Tennessee blues musicians jam in honor of the late Sleepy John Estes at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, Tennessee, 1/27/18
Meet Mayor Smith: I can't afford health care premiums for my employees
Meet Mayor Smith of Haywood County, Tennessee. With insurance getting more expensive each year, Mayor Smith is struggling to pay premiums for County employees. Now he's facing a 50% increase in premiums this year. Mayor Smith and thousands of regular hard-working Tennesseans have called on Congress to fix our broken health care system now. Will you join them? Join us in the fight for REAL health care reform and learn more about our State Fair Stories Project at
Amy Barcroft at September Concert on the Porch
Amy Barcroft makes her debut at Concert on the Porch, September 21, 2013, at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, TN. Performing from the porch of the Sleepy John Estes Home.
Lunch & Learn: Tennessee’s African American Musical Heritage
The award-winning exhibition, I Have a Voice: Tennessee’s African American Musical Heritage, organized by the staff at the State Museum, continues to travel to museums across the state. In this program, exhibit historians, Graham Perry, curator of Social History, and Mike Bell, curator of Popular Music, together with Lorenzo Washington, CEO and Founder of Jefferson Street Sound, spoke about and performed some of the music of black Tennesseans that transformed American music, including spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and soul music. These musicians have influenced and enriched music around the world, from the early blues legends of W. C. Handy and Bessie Smith to the soul hits of STAX Records in Memphis. I Have a Voice: Tennessee’s African American Musical Heritage opened at the Tennessee State Museum in 2016 and is now traveling across the state. It is currently on display at The West Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, Tennessee. Washington, through Jefferson Street Sound, is committed to carrying on the legacy of musicians and artists like Marion James, DeFord Bailey, James Brown, Little Richard, Johnny Jones, Jimmy Church, Jimmy Hendrix and more who performed in the clubs on Jefferson Street from the 1940s – 1970s. He is also featured in an oral history portion of the I Have a Voice exhibit.
TINA TURNER & RHONDA GRAAM ~ 55 Years With The Queen Of Rock. Tina´s assistent tells her story.
The Queen of Rock `n´ Roll is the legendary TINA TURNER, who has had one of the most remarkable and extraordinary careers in music history, turned 80 years-old on November 26, 2019. Tinas career began in 1958 and her fascinating but tumultuous life story has almost become a myth.
But there is only ONE person who has been close to Tina for most of her life. RHONDA GRAAM was a young lady in 1964 when she began following the explosive Ike and Tina Turner Revue and soon became their tour manager, personal assistant and helping hand. Rhonda has really been part of music history, with an unusual history as a white woman, working in a mans world in the early 1960´s, as a road manager for a black group during a difficult era of racial segregation, working on the Chitlin´ Circuit in the United States.
Tina Turner was the first woman in Rock music and her dynamic, explosive and wild performances and distinctive multifaceted raspy vocal, which made her an international superstar for 6o years.
Rhonda Graam was also one of the very few who stayed with Tina, when she broke up with her infamous and violent ex-husband and music partner, Ike Turner. Rhonda continued to be Tina´s close personal friend and assistant during all the years after her historic comeback with the album Private Dancer in 1984, and was Tina´s maid of honor when she married German record company executive, Erwin Bach.
Interviewer and artist, Lucas Alexander, sat down to speak to Rhonda Graam at the Tina Turner Museum at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, Tennessee, close to her hometowen, Nutbush. The video also features Miss Robbie from Sweetie Pie´s, aka, ROBBIE MONTGOMERY, one of the original Ikettes, who were close friends with Tina in the beginning of her career as a backup singer and dancer for the Ike and Tina Turner revue.
Rhonda Graam talks about the very early days working for Ike and Tina Turner, and later on for Tina solo, and what it was like meeting and working with so many legends and music icons of the past.
Since the interview was conducted on September 24th, 2016, a succesful musical about Tina Turner´s incredible life has opened in London´s West End, on Broadway, Hamburg and soon in Amsterdam, where there is also an important character of Rhonda Graam.
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This video is a fan-production with special thanks to Rhonda Graam and Robbie Montgomery and the Tina Turner Museum.
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West Tennessee Blues Symposium @ the Sleepy John Estes Country Blues Jam 2015
This is the West Tennessee Blues Symposium held during the 2nd Annual Sleepy John Estes Country Blues Jam. This symposium featured noted author and expert Dr. David Evans and West Tennessee Blues expert Michael Baker from Jackson, TN. This symposium was held at the Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, TN and sponsored by the West Tennessee Blues Society. The symposium was moderated by West Tennessee Blues Society President Elam McKnight.
VIDEO: Haywood County Sgt. Williams talks about difference in forum
Haywood County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Williams talks about how the NAACP Tennessee State Conference's Youth Town Hall Meeting and Education and Criminal Justice Forum is different from panels he normally sits on at Lane on Friday, March 4, 2016.
August 2013 Concert on the Porch - St. Louis Blues
Rayburn Anthony, Jimmy Taylor, Steve Patterson and Jason Fitts performing St. Louis Blues during Concert on the Porch August 2013, at the Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, Tennessee.
Memphis, Tennessee - Wiki
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U S state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff south of the confluence of the Wolf...
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Memphis is located along the Mississippi River in southwestern Tennessee. The estimated city population in 2017 was 652,236, with a 2017 metropolitan population of 1,348,260 including adjacent suburbs and counties as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The city is considered the anchor of West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas and Mississippi. Memphis is the seat of Shelby County, the most populous county in Tennessee. As one of the most historic and cultural cities of the southern United States, the city features a wide variety of landscapes and distinct neighborhoods.
The land of present day Memphis was first discovered by Spanish conquistador Hernando DeSoto in 1541 with his expedition into the New World. The high bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississippi would then be contested between the Spanish, French, and the English as Memphis took shape. Modern Memphis was founded in 1819 by three prominent Americans: John Overton, James Winchester, and future president Andrew Jackson.Memphis grew into one of the largest cities of the Antebellum South as a market for agricultural goods, natural resources like lumber, and the American slave trade. After the American Civil War and the end of slavery, the city experienced even faster growth into the 20th century as it became among the largest world markets for cotton and lumber.
Home to Tennessee's largest African-American population, Memphis played a prominent role in the American civil rights movement and was the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 assassination. The city now hosts the National Civil Rights Museum—a Smithsonian affiliate institution. Since the civil rights era, Memphis has grown to become one of the nation's leading commercial centers in transportation and logistics. The city's largest employer is the multinational courier corporation FedEx, which maintains its global air hub at Memphis International Airport, making it the second-busiest cargo airport in the world.
Today, Memphis is a regional center for commerce, education, media, art, and entertainment. The city has long had a prominent music scene, with historic blues clubs on Beale Street originating the unique Memphis blues sound during early 20th century. The city's music has continued to be shaped by a multi-cultural mix of influences across the blues, country, rock n' roll, soul, and hip-hop genres. Memphis barbecue has achieved international prominence, and the city hosts the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, which attracts over 100,000 visitors to the city annually.
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