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Clarksdale Mississippi
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Sunflower Avenue has fallen on hard times in recent years, although it used to be the center of Clarksdale blues tourism. There are a few signs of a renaissance though, including the new Lady at the Levee restaurant and the Quapaw Canoe Company, which offers tourists the opportunity to go canoeing on the Sunflower or Mississippi Rivers. 

Enjoying the blues at the Acoustic Stage, Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, Clarksdale, MS August 13, 2011

Enjoying the blues at the Acoustic Stage, Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, Clarksdale, MS August 13, 2011

91-year-old T Model Ford spent most of the day performing just outside the Blues Source CD Shop next door to Stone Pony Pizza, before finishing up with a set on the Sunflower River Stage, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS

91-year-old T Model Ford spent most of the day performing just outside the Blues Source CD Shop next door to Stone Pony Pizza, before finishing up with a set on the Sunflower River Stage, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS

Little Joe Ayres was performing in the same place on Delta Avenue, first with L. C. Ulmer, and then later in a duo with Cameron Kimbrough of the legendary family of blues musicians, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS

Little Joe Ayres was performing in the same place on Delta Avenue, first with L. C. Ulmer, and then later in a duo with Cameron Kimbrough of the legendary family of blues musicians, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS

Hill Country Records artist L. C. Ulmer was performing most of the afternoon with various musical friends and associates across the street from Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS

Hill Country Records artist L. C. Ulmer was performing most of the afternoon with various musical friends and associates across the street from Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS