Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Celebrating Freebees at Chick-fil-a month in August

August 1, Three Count Chicken Mini's 
After breakfast, hubby and I rode to Columbia, TN, to tour James K. Polk's Ancestral Home.

Flowers on Table 
August 8, Chicken Biscuit
Joined friends for dinner, where we enjoyed meatloaf, green beans, cream potatoes, and rolls and topped it off with key lime pie.
Spent the afternoon catching up on all the things we had done over the last year and what our plans were for the coming year
August 15, Egg White Grill Egg white grill for breakfast 
I ate everything except the egg whites.
After we finished eating breakfast, we went to check out our new Field & Stream store. For dinner, we enjoyed a Seafood meal at Walton's Restaurant.
Field & Stream store display
August 22, Egg and Cheese Bagel 
After breakfast, we rode to Davey Crocket Park.

August 29, Hash Brown Scramble
no pictures

August 28, Kids' Chicken finger meal

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of spending the day with Ava Grace.

We went to Deibert Park, where we met a little girl about Ava's age and the same name.

First and middle

Another little girl a year older named Haley Grace
Ava Grace is the name for her generation 
We stayed about an hour
Ave looked flushed, so we went to Chick-fil-A
Where Ava enjoyed playing with two little girls 
When they left, she was ready to go
We went home and watched Epic
We filled the hummingbird feeders
Her mom came to pick her up
We had a full day



Friday, June 10, 2016

The Blues Trail Mississippi to Helena, Arkansas


Blues Brothers
"Pass the Biscuits "" ITS KING BISCUIT TIME"
Main Street Blues 
Helena has played a vital role in blues history for artists from both sides of the Mississippi River. Once known as a “wide open” hot spot for music, gambling, and nightlife, Helena was also the birthplace of “King Biscuit Time,” the groundbreaking KFFA radio show that began broadcasting blues to the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta in 1941. The program had logged over 15,000 broadcasts by 2009 and inspired Helena to launch its renowned King Biscuit Blues Festival in 1986.
The Blues Trail Mississippi to Helena
The Blues Trail Mississippi to Helena
The town emerged as a major center of culture and commerce in the Delta during the steamboat era and maintained its freewheeling river port atmosphere well into the mid-20th century. Cafes, night spots, and good-time houses flourished, and musicians flocked here to entertain local field hands, sawmill workers, and roustabouts who came off the boats ready for action. Many bluesmen ferried across the river from Mississippi or later motored across the Helena Bridge. Others came from elsewhere in Arkansas, up from Louisiana, or down from Memphis.
Helena was at one time home to Mississippi-born blues legends Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 (Rice Miller), James Cotton, Honeyboy Edwards, and Pinetop Perkins, as well as to Arkansas natives Roosevelt Sykes, Robert Nighthawk, Robert Lockwood Jr., Frank Frost, Jimmy McCracklin, and George “Harmonica” Smith, all of whom became influential figures in the blues. Williamson, Nighthawk, and Lockwood were among the first bluesmen to play their instruments through amplifiers, paving the transitional path of blues from acoustic to electric music–a development often attributed to Muddy Waters in Chicago in the late 1940s.
Soon after KFFA went on the air on November 19, 1941, Williamson’s broadcasts on “King Biscuit Time” brought blues to an audience that had seldom if ever heard such music on the radio. Up-and-coming bluesmen B.B. King, Albert King, Jimmy Reed, and Muddy Waters all tuned in to the lunchtime broadcasts from the KFFA studios, or on occasion from WROX in Clarksdale, advertising King Biscuit Flour and promoted their upcoming shows at local juke joints and house parties. The sponsor, Interstate Grocer Company, even introduced a Sonny Boy brand of cornmeal. During Williamson’s extended stays away from Helena, drummer James “Peck” Curtis kept the program going with an assortment of band members. The show eventually switched to records instead of living music and continued with deejay Sonny Payne at the helm. Off the air only from 1980 until 1986, it still ranks as one of the longest-running programs in radio history. The Delta Cultural Center began hosting the broadcast in the 1990s.

The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival, a favorite event among blues enthusiasts around the country, began as the King Biscuit Blues Festival in 1986, welcoming back former King Biscuit Entertainers Robert Lockwood and Pinetop Perkins for the first of many annual appearances, along with a variety of other acts including perennial local favorites Frank Frost, Lonnie Shields, Sam Carr, and CeDell Davis.
Blues Artist

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