Walking south down Sunflower Avenue from Red’s Juke Joint, I came to another juke joint that I had never seen before called Pete’s Bar and Grill. I was hot from walking, and stopped in to sit at the bar and enjoy a cold coke, listening to some great southern soul music on the speakers inside.
#054 T Model Ford.MOV (by jdoggtn7)
Mississippi’s living blues legend T-Model Ford performs at the Wade Walton Stage in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival April 14, 2012
T-Model Ford performs for an appreciative crowd at the Wade Walton Stage in Clarksdale at the Juke Joint Festival April 14, 2012. The Wade Walton Stage is located in the parking lot of the late Wade Walton’s barber shop, and honors the legacy of Walton, who was a legendary Clarksdale bluesman as well as a barber.
#052 Stax Academy Drumline.MOV (by jdoggtn7)
The drumline from Stax Academy in South Memphis warms up on their “Smooth Criminal” cadence before their performance on the Delta Blues Museum stage at Juke Joint Festival April 14, 2012
The Stax Academy and Soulsville Charter School operate in the South Memphis neighborhood where Stax Records was located. The Academy trains young people to be musicians, while the charter school is a publically-funded high school. The Stax Academy drumline was in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival warming up for their performance on the Delta Blues Museum Stage.
Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, MS April 14, 2012
#046 Crankshaft.MOV (by jdoggtn7)
Crankshaft is a one-man blues band that has a somewhat alternative rock approach to the blues. Here he was performing in the parking lot beside Ground Zero during Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, April 14, 2012
Crankshaft is a one-man blues band that has a somewhat alternative rock approach to the blues. Here he was performing in the parking lot beside Ground Zero during Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, April 14, 2012
Channel Ziltch is a bizarre television-themed performance venue in Clarksdale, located next door to the highly-acclaimed Southern cuisine lunch restaurant Oxbow. Juke Joint Festival, April 14, 2012
#037 Baby Blues Drum Line.MOV (by jdoggtn7)
The Baby Blues Drumline from Memphis draws a crowd on Third Street in Clarksdale, MS during Juke Joint Festival April 14, 2012
