The Shack Up Inn grounds at Hopson are a peaceful place to relax and unwind after the hustle and bustle of Juke Joint Festival in downtown Clarksdale, 4/14/12
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Nashville blues singer Tullie Brae on the Hopson Commissary main stage, Juke Joint Festival, 4/14/12
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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
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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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
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