Herrington: The Music Fest lineup is terrible! (Actually, it’s totally fine)
The expectations game is a perennial loser for the Beale Street Music Fest, bless their hearts, and for two main reasons
Verdine White, Philip Bailey and Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind & Fire play the Homecoming Concert in New York’s Central Park. (Photo by: NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx)
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.
It never looks great on paper, but you can always be guaranteed that great stuff will happen. Like a magisterial Jill Scott cracking jokes and dispensing love advice, Sturgill Simpson surprising with a lacerating, hard country-soul set or that time that a nervy Randy Newman surveyed the afternoon crowd and began playing an unedited version of “Rednecks.”
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