Front Porch Blues & News

Music, culture, and stories from the Delta and beyond

Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash – MONDAY at 4!

The Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash is Monday, January 30th from 4-6pm. You will hear special performances from the Coahoma Community College Choir, Greenville High School Voices of Liberation, Madison Palmer...
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KEEP CLARKSDALE RESPONSES from People Who Care

Keep Clarksdale Responses from People Who Care. “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt “Keep Clarksdale” was a post on deltabohemian.com two...
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Touring Serendipity Connects Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenwood

Touring serendipity connects Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenwood on just another day in the Mississippi Delta, a special place rife with ubiquity—we never know what we will see or whom we...
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Pip Cowan Busking His Way to Mississippi

Is it any wonder a fine fella like Pip Cowan from the Land Down Under wants to return to the Mississippi Delta? Clarksdale, Mississippi draws folks daily from all over...
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How do we KEEP CLARKSDALE and continue to draw folks here?

The following thoughts on the status of my hometown bear no reflection on anyone or any entity that I might have an integral or loose association with business-wise or personally....
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WXXO – XRDS.fm Now On Air in Clarksdale

WXXO - XRDS.fm now on the air in Clarksdale, the Birthplace of the Blues. At 12:35 PM on Saturday, November 19th, WXXO, went ‘On the Air’ and launched Clarksdale's 24 hour...
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I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees

I Went to the Crossroad: The Redemption of Robert Johnson? I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees. I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees. Asked...
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Delta Business Journal Features Clarksdale Delta Advocate

Delta Business Journal (DBJ) in their October 2016 issue features a Clarksdalian by Clarksdalians for Clarksdalians and those who love this inimitable corner of the universe known as the Mississippi Delta. When...
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MISSISSIPPI DELTA MUSIC CITY alive with DEEP BLUES FEST

The Mississippi Delta Music City of Clarksdale is at it again. The DEEP BLUES FEST is this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday in Clarksdale. Lord, have mercy! They even feature GOSPEL...
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Clarksdale Super Blues Sunday PHOTOS 2010-2015

Clarksdale Super Blues Sunday, or my favorite day in Clarksdale, is October 9, 2016. Have you made your plans to attend yet?! In the past I have referred to the...
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DEEP BLUES: Alternative Blues Festival in Clarksdale

DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL returns to CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI October 13-16, 2016. Read all about it in the graphic below. Music venues include the Juke Joint Chapel at the Shack Up Inn...
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RIP Mr. Willie Seaberry – By Roger Stolle

By Guest Bohemian Roger Stolle - Written July 15, 2016. 8:03am MR. WILLIE SEABERRY (1941-2016) opened his juke joint in 1963. Last night, the man they called "PO' MONKEY" (who,...
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