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 […]
Travel and Leisure Magazine highlights Clarksdale, Greenwood and Oxford – Mississippi Delta’s Small Town Culture
January 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CAT HEAD THEN, NOW AND LATER
August 18, 2012 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, MS – By Guest Bohemian Eric Stone Cat Head turned 10 years old this year in a place where that’s a long time for a business. It’s achieved that by cutting out a strong niche for itself as both a commercial enterprise that sells blues music, art and books to visitors and also a […]
Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival – We like the sounds of that!
August 18, 2012 1 Comment
While Clarksdale welcomes the American Idol Small Town Audition Bus Tour this Sunday at the Delta Blues Museum, two of our favorite musicians – Watermelon Slim and Lightnin’ Malcolm – will be serenading our good friends Bill Bowker and Charlie Musselwhite of KRSH, plus a whole lotta lucky folks in Petaluma, California. COAHOMA TO […]
A Sunflower Plant or Two or Thousands Enjoying a Music Festival in Clarksdale 2012
August 7, 2012 3 Comments
CLARKDSALE, MS – The fabulously talented cartoonist/illustrator Nicki Wambolt has created yet another fantastic piece of art depicting this wonderful place called Clarksdale. In the poster (image also available on a t-shirt) you see a Sunflower Plant or two or thousands enjoying a Music Festival in Clarksdale, the Heart of the Mississippi Delta. The POSTER […]
‘American Idol’ is coming to CLARKSDALE, Mississippi for Season 12
July 24, 2012 3 Comments
CLARKSDALE, MS – For Season 12 ‘American Idol’ will hop on a bus and take their zaniness to Small Town America. The lucky cities are Idaho Falls, ID; Billings, MT; Casper, WY; Rock Rapids, IA; Iowa City, IA; Bowling Green, KY; Joplin, MO; Dodge City, KA; Grand Junction, CO AND C-L-A-R-K-S-D-A-L-E, Mississippi, Heart of the […]
DELTA BOHEMIAN GUEST HOUSE – Undergoing Renovation – Opening August 8, 2012
July 23, 2012 6 Comments
CLARKSDALE, MS – PHOTO GALLERY- Directly behind the Salon de Boheme, present home to Poor William and Magical Madge, sits a red cottage guest house. Both homes were built in the Mississippi Delta in 1917 by John Nause. This little red house has been a respite for many over the years. Let’s look back at […]
The Big Dinner on the Ground – Mississippi Picnic in Central Park 33rd Celebration
June 12, 2012 4 Comments
By Guest Bohemian Erickson EB Blakney, Broadcast Journalist and Documentarian with Publisher’s Footnote New York City – PHOTO GALLERY – “Follow your nose, it always knows,” so goes the popular ad jingle. Saturday, as I was standing at the far southwestern reaches of Central Park’s Sheep’s Meadow, I detected the faint, yet distinct aroma of a […]
Clarksdale’s Artist Marshall Bouldin Receives Gold Medal Award from Portrait Society of America
May 25, 2012 2 Comments
Philadelphia, PA – Clarksdale’s Marshall Bouldin, III will be the proud recipient of the Portrait Society of America‘s Gold Medal Award at their “The Art of the Portrait” conference currently being held in Philadelphia, PA. Go Marshall! Almost a year ago, Poor William, aka Billy Howell, did a feature story on Marshall (Magical Madge’s cousin, […]
Erickson EB Blakney – Cat Head – Juke Joint Festival Sunday – Clarksdale – TRUE DELTA documentary – Serendipitous Meeting
May 18, 2012 2 Comments
How could it be that over a year has passed since that Sunday afternoon following Juke Joint Festival 2011? I was hanging outside Roger’s place, listening to some Rev. Peyton and his Big Damn Band (see min 1:20) intense music, when I saw several creatures walking out of Cat Head, one of which was in […]
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