Trenton Appreciation Day a great success!
Jackson Area Plectral Society is in the News!
Casey Jones Museum & "Tennessee Crossroads"!
Posted March 26th, 2012: Very exciting news! We are proud to announce that Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum will be featured on the popular public televsion show "Tennessee Crossroads"! We really enjoyed our filming with them. Be sure to tune in if you can. If you are not a resident of Tennessee be watching for updates when they post the segment on their website: http://wnpt.org/productions/crossroads/v2/
The air dates for our "Tennessee Crossroads" show are:
Nashville/WNPT Thursday, 03/29 7:00 PM; Sunday, 04/01 10:00 AM;
Knoxville/ETPBS Saturday, 03/31 6:30 PM;
Memphis/WKNO Thursday, 04/12 7:00 PM; Friday, 04/13 Midnight Saturday, 04/14 2:00 PM; Chattanooga/WTCI Saturday, 04/21 6:30 AM, 4:30 PM Thursday, 04/26 11 PM;
Martin & Jackson/WCTE Thursday, 03/29 7:30 PM Saturday, 03/31 9:00 AM.
Thank you "Tennessee Crossroads"!!
Thank you! Readers' Choice Announcement!!
We also were very happy to receive the Runner-up Award for Best Place for Children's Entertainment and Best Buffet. Thank you to the readers of the Jackson Sun newspaper and the Jackson Sun for sponsoring this annual awards program.
International Radio Show Broadcasts from Casey Jones Village!
Guests included music legends who call the Jackson area home - Rayburn Anthony, W. S. Holland, Carl Mann and Stan Perkins. Musical guests were our own Steve Patterson, Jimmy D. Taylor and Clayton Crowell. Enjoy this wonderful original tune they played during the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_syZ86XpPw&feature=share
Be sure to see the photo album on this Facebook page: www.facebook.com/oldcountrystore We also have Facebook pages for "Casey Jones Village" and "Music Highway Crossroads".
We're on Elvis.com!!!
Exciting News from Music Highway Crossroads!
Local Musicians to Compete in International Blues Challenge
(Jackson, TN) Steve Patterson and Jimmy D. Taylor recently won First Place in the Memphis Blues Challenge sponsored by the Memphis Blues Society competition on the famed Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. The duo will now compete in the International Blues Challenge, sponsored by the Blues Foundation, to be held in Memphis at the end of January 2012.
Blueshine Duo is comprised of two West Tennessee musical artists who perform acoustic country blues. They are Jacksonian Steve Patterson, the manager at Music Highway Crossroads in Casey Jones Village, who plays the slide guitar and Jimmy D. Taylor of Brownsville, Tennessee who plays the harmonica. Major influences include Sleepy John Estes and the genre of West Tennessee and Mississippi Delta blues. With time off the last few years, the duo is back with a passion to continue to share their love of the blues with their original tunes and style paying homage to the country blues icons of the past.
The Memphis Blues Society is an all volunteer 501(3)(c) non-profit organization . They are an affiliate member of the Blues Foundation. The mission of the organization is to preserve, promote, and enhance Blues music and the blues community, support blues education, and promote the Memphis area Blues scene including its Blues musicians.
The Blues Foundation will present the 28th International Blues Challenge January 31 - February 4, 2012 in Memphis. The world's largest gathering of Blues acts represents an international search by The Blues Foundation and its affiliated organizations for the Blues Band and Solo/Duo Blues Act ready to take their act to the international stage. In 2011, 110 bands and 83 solo/duo acts entered, filling the clubs up and down Beale Street for the quarter-finals on Wednesday and Thursday, the semi-finals on Friday and the finals at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.
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Steve Patterson, Manager
Music Highway Crossroads
40 Casey Jones Village #3
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
MHC Phone Number: 731.660.4243
Clark Shaw to Receive Jackson Award!
Old Country Store CEO Clark Shaw To Receive Jackson Award
(Jackson, TN) The six winners of the prestigious Jackson Awards were announced recently by the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation. The annual award categories include: The Arts, Community Service, Education, Health Care, Leadership and Volunteer Service. The 2011 winners will be honored at the Foundation's Charity Gala Saturday, November 12th at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. They are: The Arts - Lendon Noe, Community Service - Roy Heatherly, Education - Rayna Bomar, Health Care - Sammie Arnold, Leadership - Clark Shaw and Volunteer Service - Polly Carter. The Jackson Awards were established by the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation in 2006 as a means to honor those in the community who exemplify the truest qualities of a leader. The awards are named for President Andrew Jackson, the City's namesake.
In business since 1965, the Old Country Store is located at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson, Tennessee. The website is www.oldcountrystore.com.
Casey Jones Village Featured in Tennessee Alumnus Magazine!
We were contacted a few months ago by Bud Grimes who is the Director of University Relations at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He was inquiring in his email about contacting UTM alum, Deborah Shaw Laman, saying that the Tennessee Alumnus magazine was interested in publishing a story on Casey Jones Village for their summer issue. Of course, we were delighted and met with Bud and UTM university photographer Trevor Ruszkowski in late January. It was a joy to work with them and we so appreciate the untold hours that went into the project. Bud's storytelling and Trevor's photography were a perfect combination. The article is a 4 page spread in the magazine with a number of wonderful pictures.
Read the story here online and thank you again to Tennessee Alumnus and to Bud Grimes and Trevor at UTM for an excellent job telling our story. Tennessee Alumnus Article on Casey Jones Village
Music Highway Crossroads Opens in Casey Jones Village!
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