By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO!) What do Coahoma and Sonoma Counties have in common other than alliteration? Well, some awesome blues, Lagunitas beer, Bill Bowker, Charlie Musselwhite, Charles Evans, remarkable bucolic scenery and some musician swapping—it’s legal and even moral! Coahoma County in Mississippi is home to county seat, Clarksdale, Mississippi, birthplace of the […]
Stages of a Cotton Plant
August 14, 2014 4 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) We love cotton in the Mississippi Delta. We grow it, wear it, think about it, talk about it and are thankful for it. It is a complicated, expensive crop to grow, but the fruiting process makes for some pretty scenery and the product blesses the whole world and our […]
Planes, Trains & Tractors in the Mississippi Delta
August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) The Mississippi Delta ain’ short on modes of transportation and if a seminal sojourner is quick with the iPhone, usually from a moving vehicle, then short, serendipitous captures can make for delightful Delta scenes. Recently, within a couple day period, I was fortunate to capture a plane, a train […]
Foxtrot Gallery Pop-Up Show and RUST Restaurant Festival Menu
August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi The whole pop-up thing continues to trend in the Mississippi Delta. We dig the spontaneity.
Kingfish plays guitar at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest
August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) With the annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival officially starting Thursday night at the VIP Tent, Clarksdale has already begun hearing great music. Red’s Lounge, Bluesberry Café and Ground Zero Blues Club all had music on Monday night and Red’s and Hambone Gallery had live blues Tuesday night. […]
Sunflower River Blues Festival Look Back
August 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) Remember when the main stage was only about 12-feet-wide and was on a mobile trailer? I do. That was likely the mid ’90’s. The Sunflower River Blues Festival used to be all we had here in Clarksdale, Mississippi, when it came to blues festivals. It was a big deal way […]
The Delta Bohemian Pedicab Wedding Blues
August 6, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (PHOTOS & VIDEO) Hey man, wanna get married and head downtown to a reception like a King and Queen at Bubba’s Bank building? Then, the Delta Bohemian Pedicab is the ticket for your love and riding pleasure!
Helena Pop-Up Events Trending
July 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
HELENA, Mississippi (PHOTOS and VIDEO) Last October, we visited Sean Bad Apple‘s Helena pop-up bar during the King Biscuit Blues Festival (KBBF) and found it totally enjoyable. The whole idea of a pop-up is trending in Helena. The rivertown recently played host to their very first, successful pop-up restaurant. Go Helena!
DELTA MAGAZINE – It’s all about the Delta
July 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Let Poor William tell you about the love our Delta Bohemian® Excursions recently received from Delta Magazine in the July/August 2014 issue. Editor-in-chief and founding editor Melissa Baker Townsend, Photographer Jay Adkins and Writer/Teacher Boyce Upholt invested some time in Clarksdale with Poor William and Magical Madge and we all had a very good […]
Director Lee Quinby Focuses on Clarksdale
July 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Our relationship began three years ago when I spotted a small group of nattily dressed folks exiting Cat Head on a Sunday morning following the Juke Joint Festival. When I get that urge to connect I try to always heed the call and, thankfully, they were eager to make my acquaintance, too. […]
Whuppin’ Dat Ass Mississippi Delta Style
July 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Is “ass-whuppin Christian” an oxymoron? You bet! Why is it so many of us give in to our sinful nature when we get pissed off and want to whup (or in my case, try to whup…) some ass when we become angry at somebody?
Dr. Sharony Green Visits Clarksdale
July 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) Wednesday morning late, I was about to sneak over to Oxford for a couple of hours with wife, Magical Madge, to get my mountain bike fixed and to purchase one for Madge, when I noticed two very cute ladies out front with a distinguished looking man! What’s a fella to do, […]
High School Honor Students Visit Clarksdale, Mississippi
July 17, 2014 1 Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (VIDEO) No two days alike, no two days the same. Clarksdale Mississippi, much-heralded birthplace of the blues, rarely belies its organicity. The ephemeral nature of the MS Delta, which often appears non-transitory to the uninitiated, beckons the curious with a whisper heard the world over. While giving a Delta Bohemian Pedicab […]
Being Present
July 3, 2014 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?” — Luke 12: 25-26 Memories and future worries are not reality—not really. Memories, in the non-corporeal form of past actions influence the present […]
Blackberry Pickin’
July 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Recently, four of us headed to the hill country around Charleston, MS to do some blackberry pickin’. Joey Young, a local artist, good friend, and important member of the Shack Up Inn and Rust Restaurant team, invited Madge, my daughter Galilee and me to go pick some wild blackberries on his […]
ClarksdaleInfo & DELTA BOHEMIAN® On Same Page
July 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, Mississippi We believe in celebrating Clarksdale and the Mississippi Delta, both its diversity and its constancy. However, we lean toward the unconventional. You just never know what you are gonna get. See Snow Odyssey. Our Delta Bohemian® Subscribers (see green subscription box on right hand column to Subscribe – hint hint) and followers on our Facebook […]
Which Marshall Bouldin do you know ?
June 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE FLORENCE MARLEY HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi INCLUDES HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTICLES FROM CLARKSDALE “For his highly developed mind, his understanding of human nature, his beautiful vision, his great executive ability, his powers of leadership, his conscientious desires to uphold the highest ideals of honesty, truth and sincerity and loyalty, his friends loved and admired […]
Marshall Bouldin III – Focus on a Portrait
June 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE MARLEY HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTOGRAPHS How does a portrait artist get started? Watch the interview with the artist Marshall Bouldin III beneath his first commissioned portrait.
The Mississippi Delta is for Killin’ Snakes
June 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO During the summer, I chop! I chop weeds and I kill snakes—both kinds—real and unseen in the Mississippi Delta! One cannot chop weeds in row crops next to the proverbial and always present turn row canal and be too afraid of snakes. Canal is a bit of a stretch in […]
The Wisdom of Mr. Davis
June 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO Watch the video to listen to Poor William reflect on the Wisdom of Mr. Davis. His previous reflection about Mr. Davis was in March 2012, titled “Mr. Davis: Work, Home, Church–It’ll keep you out of trouble”
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