Delta Easter: Cleveland’s Former Home of the Blues is Still Home To Good Food
Years ago, the Airport Grocery was both a great steak house out on Highway 8 west of Cleveland, Mississippi and that city’s best blues venue. …
Delta Easter: Slow and Easy Is The Pace in Pace
I recalled Pace, Mississippi being the site of some degree of controversy in my younger days back in the 1980’s. Like the similar town of …
Delta Easter: An Abandoned Church Near Symonds
The map showed a road called Pemble Road, a direct route from Merigold to a community called Symonds, which I had never been to, and …
Delta Easter: Desecration of Po Monkey’s, One of the Holy Sites of the Blues
From Drew, I decided to head across to Merigold. I had wanted to see Po Monkey’s juke joint for the first time in real life, …
Delta Easter: The Dirty Flo Juke Joint at Drew
The number of active juke joints in Mississippi has been declining for some time, so when I saw an entry in Facebook for a new …
Delta Easter: Hebrew Baptist Church and Dublin, Mississippi
Beyond Mattson, I came to a church with the curious name of Hebrew Baptist Church, and shortly beyond that, a small town called Dublin. Whereas …
Delta Easter: Mattson, Mississippi and True Vine Church
Mattson is a community which would seem to be the center of a large plantation. That being said, it is laid out like a beautiful …
Delta Easter: St. Paul Church, Hopson, Mississippi
Just to the west of the current Highway 49 beyond Clarksdale is the old Highway 49, the road that runs past Hopson Commissary and the …
Delta Easter: A Blues Affair At A Clarksdale Grocery?
Roger Stolle, the arbiter of all things blue in Coahoma County had listed a strange and rather unusual entry in his weekly live music flyer- …
Delta Easter: Prologue: A Brunch at Sunrise Memphis and Third Street, South Memphis
The weekend after the soggy Juke Joint Festival was Easter Weekend, and that weekend got the weather that Juke Joint Fest should have gotten. Easter …