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, remarkable bucolic scenery and some musician swapping—it’s legal and even moral! Coahoma County in Mississippi is home to county seat, Clarksdale, Mississippi, birthplace of the […]

Foxtrot Gallery Pop-Up Show and RUST Restaurant Festival Menu

Clarksdale, Mississippi The whole pop-up thing continues to trend in the Mississippi Delta. We dig the spontaneity.

Kingfish plays guitar at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest

By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, 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 Lounge, Bluesberry Café and Ground Zero Blues Club all had music on Monday night and Red’s and Hambone Gallery had live blues Tuesday night. […]

Sunflower River Blues Festival Look Back

By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, 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 River Blues Festival used to be all we had here in Clarksdale, Mississippi, when it came to blues festivals. It was a big deal way […]

The Delta Bohemian Pedicab Wedding Blues

By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, 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 Bohemian Pedicab is the ticket for your love and riding pleasure!

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 is trending in Helena. The rivertown recently played host to their very first, successful pop-up restaurant. Go Helena!

Being Present

By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?”  —  Luke 12: 25-26 Memories and future worries are not reality—not really. Memories, in the non-corporeal form of past actions influence the present […]

Blackberry Pickin’

By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Recently, four of us headed to the hill country around Charleston, MS to do some blackberry pickin’. Joey Young, a local artist, good friend, and important member of the Shack Up Inn and Rust Restaurant team, invited Madge, my daughter Galilee and me to go pick some wild blackberries on his […]

ClarksdaleInfo & DELTA BOHEMIAN® On Same Page

By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, 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 gonna get. See Snow Odyssey. Our Delta Bohemian® Subscribers (see green subscription box on right hand column to Subscribe – hint hint) and followers on our Facebook […]

Charlie Musselwhite Loves Delta Bohemian Excursions

By MAGICAL MADGE & POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY Multiple Blues Music Award winner, Charlie Musselwhite, who has been on tour with Ben Harper for their Grammy-Award-winning blues album “Get Up” has been coming to the Mississippi Delta since he was a child, but recently he admitted that he has felt more connected to the […]

Rickie Fowler Play 9 “girlfriend”

By CORINNE VANCE Recently, Leah Bruce-Krock, owner of Colors Agency, sent an email requesting I audition for an American Express®/USGA national television commercial featuring the always flamboyantly dressed professional golfer Rickie Fowler. Oh my goodness!

Maude Schuyler Clay DELTA DOGS book signings

By MAGICAL MADGE GREENWOOD, OXFORD, JACKSON, CLEVELAND, SUMNER, CLARKSDALE, VICKSBURG, PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi Like you encouraged me to do, Maudie, I am waiting to purchase my DELTA DOGS at a local Mississippi bookstore. You will find me at one of the book shops listed below waiting in line to get your “John Hancock” in person on my newly purchased […]

RUST Restaurant Reopens at SHACK UP INN

By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi   –   VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY It’s old; it’s new; it’s real! Rust ain’ just about oxidation; RUST the Restaurant is all about the Delta and it’s all about rustic-cool! RUST opened its doors over six years ago in downtown Clarksdale. In fact, I was privileged to have been a part of […]

What do Delta Bohemian Excursions look like?

By MAGICAL MADGE (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi)  PHOTO GALLERY and VIDEO[foothumbnailgallery id=”4554″]The Delta Bohemian® is discovering splendid ways to connect with both visitors and locals in and around Clarksdale via our new Delta Bohemian Excursions. Be it with a fancy, luxurious, makes-you-feel-like-a-queen-or-king rickshaw pedicab or via Poor William’s sticker tattooed Jeep or Magical Madge’s posh Lexus. Whatever your […]

Westside Family Medical Clinic picks SUMNER

By MAGICAL MADGE SUMNER, Mississippi If you grew up in the Mississippi Delta, you never thought twice about having to drive to get where you wanted to go. An hour drive to Lusco’s Restaurant is one of our favorites. Ole Miss is an hour and 15. Then you have to figure that same amount of time on the back end […]

Titties, Chicken Wings, & a Fake Death – Steve Kolbus

Musician Steve Kolbus riding on DB Pedicab with Billy Howell By BILLY “POOR WILLIAM” HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi – VIDEOS IN POST What do chicken wings, titties and a true story about a woman faking her own death have to do with each other? Steve Kolbus. Steve Kolbus is an iconic local musician, Clarksdale transplant, nice guy, great promoter, multi-vocational window […]

Juke Joint Juggernaut

The Worm Has Turned for Clarksdale By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi  — PHOTOS IN POST Whoomp, there it went! Clarksdale’s 11th Annual Juke Joint Festival was insane, rad, gnarly, cool, groovy, boss, far-out, epic, and DA BOMB-ay! I AIN’ LYIN’! Ask just about anyone who has been to more than one Juke Joint Festival and they might tell […]

He Wants It All in Clarksdale – Juke Joint Festival Week 2014

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi  — VIDEO in post Please enjoy this video taken on Sunday, April 13, 2014 of Kayla N. Wigley and Kandis Nichole Wigley-Webb, daughter, mother and sisters in Christ, at the First Presbyterian Church in Clarksdale. They sang “He Wants It All” by Dominique Jones of the group forever JONES, a Christian gospel group formed by […]

TEN Juke Joint Festival Do’s and Don’ts

By BILLY “POOR WILLIAM” HOWELL (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi)

Rock and Blues Museum has Live Music during Juke Joint Festival

(CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) The Rock and Blues Museum is proud to announce their live music lineup, exhibits, reception and fundraiser for Thursday, April 10 – Saturday, April 12 during the 11th Annual Juke Joint Festival 2014. Be sure to drop by and say hello to Theo Dasbach! FREE JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL Rock & Blues Museum Events […]