Starting this Friday with a special minisode for the NPR student podcast challenge college edition, season one of Beyond Beale will cover the Memphis Country Blues Festival of the mid-to-late 1960s.
This teaser features quotes from Henry Nelson, Augusta Palmer, and Chris Wimmer in that order. It also features music by Cam Napier.
Augusta Palmer: The way it played out in Memphis is unique to Memphis in some ways.
Henry Nelson: It was my place of belonging and it was my place of where where peace was the thing.
Chris Wimmer: There was so much music coming out of Memphis other than Elvis.