Front Porch Blues & News
Music, culture, and stories from the Delta and beyond
The New York Times values Shonda Warner’s opinion when it comes to farmland prices – What do you think?
L – Chess Ag Full Harvest Partners founder, R – Executive Director of Teach For America’s Delta region. Photo by Delta Bohemian (Clarksdale, Mississippi) -by Guest Bohemian Fat Clyde, aka...
This Year’s Blue Biscuit Festival in Indianola is June 1st – Always the First Saturday Every June!
The Blue Biscuit in Indianola, Mississippi (Indianola, Mississippi) Trish Berry wasn’t deterred from hosting her already planned music festival when the BB King Homecoming Celebration decided to skip on over...
People of the Delta – A Passion of Joey L
Early concept art by illustrator Sam Spratt for “People of the Delta” by Joey L. Courtesy of joeyl.com Look what I stumbled upon while surfing the ofttimes life-sucking internet. (Jump...
When A Friend Asks For Help, Respond. Is The Mississippi River Your Friend?
John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company on the Mississippi River at sunrise. Photo by DELTA BOHEMIAN By Magical Madge (Clarksdale, Mississippi) VIDEOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST I had...
An Organ Concert in Clarksdale – Come hear an organ sing!
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) – There is an instrument in Clarksdale that sits silent most days until it comes alive, usually on Sunday mornings, when Jay Westfaul tickles it’s keys during church...
Was Caroline Kennedy Really in Clarksdale, Mississippi?
Madge Marley Howell, E. B. Blackney and sistah Caroline Kennedy (Clarksdale, Mississippi) – PHOTO GALLERY IN POST – Believe it or not, Caroline Kennedy, while promoting her latest book “Listening...
Charlie Musselwhite Making Headlines with Ben Harper for GET UP!
Jay Leno introducing Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper Clarksdale, Mississippi – A sweet surprise landed in Poor William’s inbox last week. He then forwarded the message to moi. The message...
3rd CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL puts Mississippi under the Hollywood spotlight
Roger Stolle with Buddy Wayne (L) and Bill Dundee (R) at Cdale Film Festival 2012 CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – For its third year in a row, the Clarksdale Film Festival aims to...
Steve Kolbus – RAW & UNCUT at Tricia’s PIE HOLE and GZBC in Clarksdale
Steve Kolbus performing “Shelby Woman” at GZBC January 2013. Photo credit: DELTA BOHEMIAN By Magical Madge CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI VIDEO IN POST – Steve Kolbus, former standup comic for 22+ years,...
Music strikes a chord whether with Jose in Downtown Sydney or in the Blues Capital of the World – Clarksdale, Mississippi
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...