Memphis Mojo was built and launched 10 years ago as an experiment and a place for Conaway Brown advertising to practice interactive ideas and tools, but Memphis Mojo soon gained a lif of its own. This is because there is nothing faux in the way it presents the city: because it has an outlook that comes from the city's very roots -- soul and soil; because its content is unique among "city sites" and has been updated regularly.
BlueSpeak sprang from the old Memphis Star and began in print in 1995. The last issue was printed in 1998, shifting over to online in 1999.
BlueSpeak.com has become one of the best sources for features and reviews of roots music and related information, local, regional, national and even international. Together with Memphis Mojo, we've got everything covered. Music, people, places, the works.
Our Mojo is still working, still spreading, still growing.
David Wayne Brown (david@conbro.com), the publisher. David had an award-winning journalism career - including a stint as editor of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis - before he saw the light and started his own communications company. He's the Brown in Conaway Brown, and serves as president and CEO.
Brown Burnett (brown@conbro.com), is the editor and principal writer of Memphis Mojo/BlueSpeak. Brown, a native Mississippian and longtime Memphian,has been a working journalist since his teens, beginning as a sportswriter more than 30 years ago. He has served as writer, entertainment editor, music critic and columnist for various publications, including the Memphis Commercial Appeal (where he and David Brown created that newspaper's Playbook and Fanfare sections), 901 music magazine and radio program and the Jackson (Ms.) Daily News and Clarion-Ledger and, of course, the previous print incarnation of BlueSpeak. He's also a working musician/singer/songwriter, playing harmonica and guitar and on the boards of the Blues Foundation and the Memphis Film Forum.