South of downtown Clarksdale across the railroad tracks is a historic African-American neighborhood known as New World, which apparently took its name from a night club of that name which was located near the railroad depot in the early 20th century. Sam Cooke was born in the neighborhood before his family moved to Chicago.
R. L. Boyce, Lightnin Malcolm & Jimbo Mathus at Clarksdale’s Deep Blues Festival
Robert Palmer’s movie and book “Deep Blues” was instrumental in introducing the world to the Hill Country Blues style and its stars, R. L. Burnside …