Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Charcoal Crusted Chicken’s competition packet
An archive-style site documents a Memphis Southern rock band whose members also competed in barbecue contests.
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- Readers of invented music histories and barbecue records
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- The site says each 45-minute set matched the interval between firebox checks, with the pit held at 225°F.
Field notes
The packet organizes its account into records rather than a conventional band biography, including a fire log and judges’ sheet. The visible history says the members combined two rival Mid-South barbecue teams in 1990, then played from a plywood deck bolted to the smoker trailer. The page also describes an overnight 1995 riverfront cook; the extract does not establish whether these are historical records or an authored fiction.
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