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    Saturday Night Music: Bluff City Backsliders

    Saturday Night Music: Bluff City Backsliders

    Presented by Center For Southern Folklore at Center for Southern Folklore

    March 13, 2010

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    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.


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        Center for Southern Folklore

        119 S. Main Street
        Memphis, TN 38103

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        March 13, 2010

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        9 p.m.

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