Ironing Board Sam “Legendary” (Billboard) soul man Ironing Board Sam—long lost for a time—has completed a comeback to the music world. This year...
J.D. Wilkes MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A sense of place has long permeated the music of J.D. Wilkes. He’s a native of Paducah, Kentucky,...
J.W. Warren J.W. Warren was born in 1921 in Enterprise, AL. In a family of eleven children, he was the only one...
Jack Oblivian Depending on whom you ask, Jack “Oblivian” Yarber is either a rock legend or an absolute unknown. This dichotomy is...
Jim Mize CONWAY, Ark.—The South has a legacy of great, iconoclastic storytellers — artists with a kudzu-shaded vision that cuts straight to...
Jimbo Mathus From the proto garage rock of “Haunted John” (“up and down Saint Charles/rides the streetcar all night long”), to the...