Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, MS, 4/14/12
#076 Rev. John Wilkins.MOV (by jdoggtn7)
The Rev. John Wilkins performing at The Bank stage, Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, MS, 4/14/12
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The Rev. John Wilkins performing at The Bank stage, Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, MS, 4/14/12
Bands occasionally just set up on the street in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival 4/14/12
Baby Blues drumline, Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale, MS April 14, 2012
The Baby Blue Drumline on Delta Avenue, Clarksdale, Juke Joint Festival 2012
The Baby Blue drumline performing on Delta Avenue, Clarksdale, MS, Juke Joint Festival, April 14, 2012
If the Shack Up Inn evokes one kind of Mississippi past, Clarksdale’s Riverside Hotel evokes another. It was once the African-American hospital where blues legend Bessie Smith died (her room is a shrine to her that is not rented), and from the 1940’s on has been a hotel. Frank “Rat” Ratcliff is the owner, and can tell the visitor all the famous blues and soul legends who have stayed there. While it isn’t fancy, and while the rooms don’t have private bathrooms, it is clean and extremely difficult to get a room there during Juke Joint Festival
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.Â
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Mississippi’s living blues legend T-Model Ford performs at the Wade Walton Stage in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival April 14, 2012
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T-Model Ford at the Wade Walton Stage, Juke Joint Fest, Clarksdale
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.Â