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Soulsville comes full circle as Mitchell Worley takes the helm

By , Daily Memphian Published: August 16, 2022 4:00 AM CT

Perhaps few are as well-suited to be the head of Soulsville as Pat Mitchell Worley, co-host of “Beale Street Caravan,” former communications director of the Memphis Music Foundation, one-time hard rock DJ and protégé of Deanie Parker. 

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Chris Herrington

Chris Herrington

Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.


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