Sean “Bad” Apple & R. L. Boyce at The Bin at Shacksdale Motel
It’s not at all unusual for Sean “Bad” Apple and R. L. Boyce to perform in Clarksdale, but on the last Saturday in February, they …
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Leo “Bud” Welch and Friends at Red’s in Clarksdale
After the screening of the last film of this year’s Clarksdale Film Festival (which was appropriately enough a documentary about Leo “Bud” Welch), my girlfriend …
Great Music Documentaries and Live Music at the Clarksdale Film Festival
The annual Clarksdale Film Festival is a rather unusual film festival. For one thing it is held in the Mississippi Delta city of Clarksdale, which …
Kingfish and Terry “Big T” Williams Rock The Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival
https://goo.gl/photos/gKxu3ekdroFrpCtR9 Founded in 1988, the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival is the older of Clarksdale’s two main annual blues festivals, but in recent years …
Juke Joint Fest: Cedric Burnside & Trenton Ayers
https://goo.gl/photos/eBLqjHjqcNWfuMsC6 https://goo.gl/photos/JATvcUY3U8kiCqub7 https://goo.gl/photos/DHvk3BKxcTGDkteN8 https://goo.gl/photos/5DCMeocig77wy6XP9 https://goo.gl/photos/MnEoDGawbuix84Q89 This year’s Juke Joint Fest culminated with a late Saturday evening show at the Delta Theatre featuring Cedric Burnside and …
Juke Joint Fest: Robert Kimbrough Sr.
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Kathryn’s Fine Dining on Moon Lake
https://goo.gl/photos/T1ZboBCqCC4EfePs5 https://goo.gl/photos/FBsKZQjb3gyEqHuYA Since the abrupt and unexpected closure of Morgan Freeman’s Madidi Restaurant a few years ago, fine dining in Clarksdale has been something like …
Juke Joint Fest: Roosevelt Roberts Jr
https://goo.gl/photos/gnbsnoMSixTCe1Mu9 https://goo.gl/photos/AuQmutRvNZuDVFvXA https://goo.gl/photos/6RCT2skAS3PkYS546 https://goo.gl/photos/s3X4shn3AE2RUTtD8 https://goo.gl/photos/SDcDTVaa7jQsChuB8 The tiny town of Bentonia, Mississippi has more than its fair share of blues musicians, and one of them is …
Juke Joint Fest: The Baby Blues Drumline
https://goo.gl/photos/C9KRdHurceoenQpr9 Although not an official act on any of the festival stages, the Memphis-based Baby Blues Drumline is a popular crowd pleaser at the annual …