Arteests
Creative voices, art, and expression from the Delta
John Ruskey Lectures Delta Psi Fraternity at Ole Miss
By MAGICAL MADGE and GUEST BOHEMIAN BRAXTON BARDEN PHOTOS and SEVERAL VIDEOS and SPECIAL LINK NEAR BOTTOM Was I reading my email correctly....? Quapaw Canoe Company's John Ruskey was speaking at a fraternity...
Watermelon Slim Sings Northwest Passage
By POOR WILLIAMVIDEO and PHOTOS Delta eclectic is not relegated to Clarksdale, MS, though I think we have a short leg up on the rest of God’s fertile country south...
Rory Doyle Captures Bill Abel
By GUEST BOHEMIAN PHOTOGRAPHER RORY DOYL I followed Bill Abel, someone who I have great respect for as a Bluesman and artist. I have seen him play a number of times,...
The ‘Sip Magazine Appreciates the DB
By POOR WILLIAMPHOTOS It’s always a tricky enterprise in today’s social media driven culture—rife with endless opportunities to “reach” potential customers—to share wonderful things others say and not appear to...
Cactus and Stud: Meet Me in the City! Again!
By POOR WILLIAM↓ VIDEO INCLUDED ↓ Clarksdale is all right! Live blues every night of the year, right here, in river city! One never knows what he or she will get...
Christone Kingfish Ingram Clarksdale Blues Prodigy
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTOS Christon Kingfish Ingram is a “bad boy” to be such a good boy; meaning his always improving guitar skills place him on par...
Play more tunes for me Daddy Rich
By MAGICAL MADGEClarksdale, Mississippi VIDEOS It's sad, sad to think Daddy Rich may bow out of the music world. I know he took a break this past year to get...
Five Years and Growing for Clarksdale Film Festival
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi What a perfect time of year to stay indoors and watch movies. It's so cold outside! Give me a good movie, a blanket and a beverage...
Red’s Lounge on a Friday Night in Clarksdale
Lucious Spiller performing at Red's Lounge in Clarksdale with Stan Street on harp By POOR WILLIAM VIDEO and PHOTOS Hey Man, I know we did a post...
Meet Me in the City of Clarksdale
By POOR WILLIAM VIDEOS and PHOTOS Clarksdale Mississippi is a bad mama jama: just as fine as she can be with live music 365 days a year! So, if folks want...
Rice Farmer Outfits Delta Office with John Ruskey Paintings
By POOR WILLIAMSumner, Mississippi VIDEO & PHOTO GALLERY What always happens when an eclectic rice-farming, map-collecting restaurateur and Delta transplant buys a bevy of original artwork and giclées from a...
Clarksdale Artist in Residence Mecca
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Buildings all over Clarksdale beg to become sanctuaries for artists in residence. In the meantime, while entrepreneurs like Charles Evans, who is renovating and converting...