Front Porch Blues & News
Music, culture, and stories from the Delta and beyond
Third Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival
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,...
Stages of a Cotton Plant
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, 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...
Foxtrot Gallery Pop-Up Show and RUST Restaurant Festival Menu
Clarksdale, MississippiThe whole pop-up thing continues to trend in the Mississippi Delta. We dig the spontaneity. (more…)
Kingfish plays guitar at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, 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...
Sunflower River Blues Festival Look Back
By MAGICAL MADGEClarksdale, 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...
The Delta Bohemian Pedicab Wedding Blues
By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, 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...
Helena Pop-Up Events Trending
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...
DELTA MAGAZINE – It’s all about the Delta
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...
Director Lee Quinby Focuses on Clarksdale
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...
Dr. Sharony Green Visits Clarksdale
By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, 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...
High School Honor Students Visit Clarksdale, Mississippi
By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, 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...
ClarksdaleInfo & DELTA BOHEMIAN® On Same Page
By MAGICAL MADGECLARKSDALE, 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...