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 …
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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 …
A Wet And Busy Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale
I usually enjoy myself quite a bit at the annual Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, but this year’s festival was both wet and harried, as …
A Perfect Meal At One of America’s Oldest Restaurants
After two performances in Belzoni, I was thoroughly hungry and somewhat tired. Belzoni had only one sit-down restaurant as far as I could see, but …
Catfish’s Big Day in Belzoni
I had no phone service at all while I was at Swiftown, but as I approached Belzoni, my phone started ringing. Blues musician Duwayne Burnside, …
Loss And Abandonment At Morgan City, Mississippi
Just outside of a town called Morgan City, Mississippi, I spied what appeared to be a large historic home across the flat fields near the …
Historic Structures at Dubard, Mississippi
On an early Saturday morning, as I headed for the World Catfish Festival in Belzoni, I came to a crossroads west of Grenada on Highway …
A Friday Night in Nashville
After a day of research on my thesis in the Tennessee State Archives, I decided to enjoy my Friday night in Nashville. I headed first …
A Rainy Night in the New Nashville
I drove up to Nashville on a Thursday night so that I could spend Friday in the Tennessee State Archives doing research for my masters’ …