CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – VIDEO IN POST – Dingo celebrated his birthday at Red’s Blues Club this past Friday, January 18, 2013 surrounded by good friends. Razorblade opened the show with his classic “Trouble in my bedroom” followed by a few tunes sung by Miss Gladys and then Rip Butler took over the mic. He sang […]
Red’s Blues Club and Dingo’s Birthday Party – ain’t nothing like the blues, y’all!
January 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
BOHEMIAN PARTY BULB – A Hidden Whim
January 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Poor William and Magical Madge CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI VIDEO IN POST – Straight from the Hidden Whim Year vault, enjoy this intimate scene where Poor William shows Magical Madge how the Bohemian Party Bulb operates. Poor William: You tell me where it hits you right, baby. Magical Madge: It’s the Party Bulb. How do you make […]
Steve Kolbus – RAW & UNCUT at Tricia’s PIE HOLE and GZBC in Clarksdale
January 19, 2013 2 Comments
By Magical Madge CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI VIDEO IN POST – Steve Kolbus, former standup comic for 22+ years, is now a fixture in Clarksdale. He moved here and opened a restaurant called Tricia’s Italian Eatery and Pie Hole which is sadly now closed. It was a first for Clarksdale to have a pie hole! Poor William […]
3rd CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL puts Mississippi under the Hollywood spotlight
January 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – For its third year in a row, the Clarksdale Film Festival aims to make you laugh, cry and, occasionally, rock out. Organizers promise attendees a feast of Mississippi and Southern filmmaking – plus a little fresh popcorn. According to Garden & Gun magazine, “Mississippi gets its close-up… to celebrate the Magnolia State’s films and […]
Duck hunting with Kallie North in the Mississippi Delta
January 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge – The first and last time I went duck hunting was in the late 70’s with my brother, Chris. I recall… It was so damn cold…and I hate being cold The beautiful yet barren Mississippi Delta landscape resonated Hearing my brother call the ducks was fun and fascinating Thrilled I was when […]
Music strikes a chord whether with Jose in Downtown Sydney or in the Blues Capital of the World – Clarksdale, Mississippi
January 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – VIDEO IN POST – It’s a dreary day today in Clarksdale, smack dab in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, and all is cold, wet, icy, barren and the wind is blowing. Why not take today to remember Australia and how it continues to affect my senses. I hope you take pleasure […]
Travel and Leisure Magazine highlights Clarksdale, Greenwood and Oxford – Mississippi Delta’s Small Town Culture
January 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Poor William CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – Travel and Leisure’s Feb. 2013 edition features an article centered on three Mississippi towns: Clarksdale, Greenwood and Oxford. “The Mississippi Delta’s Small-Town Culture” initially appeared as “Southern Revival” in T&L Magazine. The standalone intro speaks much truth: “Searching for authentic American Culture? Find it in the Mississippi Delta, where […]
True Delta: True Dat ….A simple review of a fantastic documentary
October 12, 2012 1 Comment
By Poor William CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – The MISSISSIPPI DELTA is a land and culture brimming with complex contradictions, a veritable mélange of befuddlements, commingling like silt, water, and snowmelt, as they bend and blend into one giant “muddy” mix of tranquility and roiling turgidity, disseminating a nation’s runoff into a thirsty, yet strangely self-sufficient land […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Y’ALL!! Clarksdale Festival, October 12-13, 2012
October 11, 2012 Leave a Comment
By Poor William CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – VIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERY IN POST – Clarksdale will host it’s 20th Tennessee Williams Festival this weekend, October 12-13, 2012. The event, sponsored by Coahoma Community College (CCC), kicks off at 9:00 a.m. on Friday at the Whiteside Lecture Hall on the Coahoma Community College main campus and concludes […]
Caroline Kennedy to Speak on lawn at Cutrer Mansion in Clarksdale
October 10, 2012 2 Comments
By Poor William Clarksdale, Mississippi – Caroline Kennedy will be speaking on the lawn at the Cutrer Mansion Friday, October 12th, as part of the free Community Book Talks Lecture Series. Folks will begin gathering on the grounds at 5:00 p.m. and Caroline, only surviving child of John F. Kennedy, will discuss “Listening In: The […]
DELTA BOHEMIAN BLUES by Ellis Hall
October 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi – The way cool and talented entertainer, songwriter/singer musician Ellis Hall from LA visited the Delta Bohemian Gift Shop at 274 Sunflower Avenue this nippy, rainy Saturday afternoon in downtown Clarksdale during the King Biscuit Festival weekend. Enjoy these spontaneous videos shot on the fly. Sorry folks, I left my reading glasses somewhere […]
Busy Has Become The New Lazy
October 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
By Corinne Vance Take a second to breath: Close your eyes, clear your mind and take one of those deep breaths that hisses through the nostrils and fills the belly. Now hold it! Enjoy, be thankful for, and recognize this moment when your mind doesn’t have to take notice about anything except for the oxygen […]
Where is Clarksdale? Here We Is!
October 5, 2012 3 Comments
Clarksdale, Mississippi – VIDEO IN POST Looking for a place with a few folks who could speak, type and even sing the King’s English…when they wanted to…which is fine and dandy, but it rarely draws attention, and we like attention, except when we don’t? Then… COME TO CLARKSDALE! OFTEN! Attached is a video Magical […]
Visual Recap of a Night at the New Roxy: Featuring Clarksdale Artist Randall Andrews
October 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi – VIDEO IN POST Wednesday night September 26, 2012 at the New Roxy in downtown Clarksdale, “all up in” the New World District, local artist, Randall Andrews, had a well-attended showing of his creative and unique mixed-media expressions using Delta debris and found objects, hence the name of his business DELTA DEBRIS. Enjoy […]
TALE OF A FAT BOY IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER: A Different Sense of Economy
September 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
Ballarat, Australia – Poor William, he ain’ dead yet, and his wife of mythical proportions, Magical Madge, recently were fortunate enough to have been in ‘A Land Down Under, where women glow and men plunder,’ and such stuff… ‘Can you hear the thunder?’ Men At Work started it! Anyway… A cocktail party was being held […]
Randall Andrews Featured at the NEW ROXY: Reception Tonight – Exhibit through October 6, 2012
September 26, 2012 2 Comments
By Poor William Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 5-8 PM, Clarksdale, MS. – Bohemians, lovers of authenticity, locals, visitors, and even stray cats and a pigeon or two: A FREE RECEPTION for gifted local artist Randall Andrews is being held this very night in Clarksdale, Mississippi—Heart of the Mississippi Delta! Free means “an evening of […]
Coahoma Living Magazine features John Ruskey and his new RIVER GATOR website
August 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi – The Summer 2012 issue of Clarksdale Press Register’s Coahoma Living magazine celebrates the dawn of a new website. RIVERGATOR.org has been birthed by Delta Bohemian Driftwood Johnnie, aka John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company. After many years of personal river experience and several years of site development, John has given to non-motorized […]
Robert Plant had a real good time in Clarksdale – The Golden Buckle [The Telegraph – London]
August 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
We are making news, folks, across the ocean thanks to writer Paul Sexton of The Telegraph in London. Sexton interviews our brother Robert Plant and garners words of wisdom from the rocker about our recent Mississippi Delta festival, the blues, Africa and his band. In his article Paul makes a brief reference to “Clarksdale, …once […]
What do Lagunitas Brewing Company and Watermelon Slim have in common? A successful blues festival in Sonoma County
August 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
Petaluma, CA – If you saw our post COAHOMA TO SONOMA COUNTY BLUES FESTIVAL: We Like The Sounds Of That! you may be wondering how things turned out over the weekend. Our friend Bill Bowker, known for his radio shows at The KRUSH, sent us a juicy email with a link to a fine […]
COMPLEX CONTRADICTIONS: PLANNING FOR WHAT MATTERS – The Delta Bohemians meet Australia Up Close and Personal
August 18, 2012 Leave a Comment
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Goodness gracious, the DB is going DOWN ….under, that is! Poor William and Magical Madge, aka Billy and Madge Howell slated as KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, have been invited to have a ‘fire-side’ chat presentation with the highly entertaining and knowledgeable Tim Biles on Day Two of a business conference […]
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