Two more Mississippi Blues Trail markers were unveiled in Holly Springs on Wednesday. The markers, located in Blues Alley near 125 N Center Street, memorialize the life and work of R.L. Burnside and David “Junior” Kimbrough, two native musicians who helped popularize hill country blues. “Mississippi is blessed to have.
One of the best scenes in
Holy Motors the Leos Carax drama from 2012 is a musical number in which Denis Lavant leads a procession of men in an accordion-driven cover of of R.L. Burnside’s “Let My Baby Ride.” It’s evocative of another exhilarating musical moment from an earlier Carax/Lavant collab: The David Bowie “Modern Love” scene in 1986 s
Mauvais Sang. So when Carax announced that his follow-up to
Holy Motors would be a full-on musical film featuring music by the Sparks brothers, no less we were certainly
enthused, to say the least. Nine years after
Holy Motors knocked our socks off, the first trailer for Carax’s