Deak Harp knows how to make the ladies smile. Magical Madge had some cool chicks staying at the Clarksdale White House and Delta Bohemian Guest House recently. Several took a Delta Bohemian Tour, which included a visit to Deak Harp’s Mississippi Saxophones and Blues Emporium, where my good friend Deak not only chatted up the […]
Delta Blues Museum Issues URGENT CALL For Your Help
October 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Blues Museum issues Urgent Call for your help! They have been approved for a $30,000 grant that must be matched dollar-for-dollar by Tuesday, October 31, 2017, in order to receive the grant money! Would you or your business please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to help them reach this goal? EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS
Delta Plein Air Artists Unite – Charleston, Mississippi
September 3, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Plein Air Artists unite for the First Annual “Paint the Gateway to the Delta” plein air paint out and exhibition September 6-9, 2017 in Charleston, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County! Any artist or budding wannabe artist can participate. The host, Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort (C.A.R.E.), posted an invitation on their facebook page which said “Come paint with us!” Since […]
“Paddle to the Amazon” Adventurer Dana Starkell
June 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Bohemian Tours was on its regular Regional Identity Tour a couple days ago, including an almost mandatory stop at the Mississippi River near historic Friars Point, MS, when we encountered, as we often do, sojourners “green-miling” down the Mother of all Waters, also known as Old Man River. “Paddle to the Amazon” adventurer Dana […]
CraigCat on an Oxbow with Chilly Billy
June 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
What’s that? A CraigCat on an Oxbow?!! Hey Man, this is Chilly Billy Howell, your personal tour guide with DELTA BOHEMIAN TOURS (deltabohemiantours.com). When I am not giving tours to folks visiting the Mississippi Delta, I am touring myself around. Check out a visit on a local oxbow via the CraigCat, a battery-operated craft designed for […]
Clarksdale Sunday Afternoon Music at Levon’s Bar & Grill
June 12, 2017 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale Sunday Afternoon Music at Levon’s Bar & Grill [VIDEO] Groovin’, on a Sunday afternoon Really couldn’t get away too soon I can’t imagine anything that’s better The world is ours whenever we’re together There ain’t a place I’d like to be instead of Groovin’…The Rascals Dude, it’s all about groovin’ when ya can, and there […]
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down in Clarksdale Town
June 12, 2017 Leave a Comment
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down in Clarksdale Town [VIDEOS] On a Sunday morning sidewalk I’m wishing, Lord, that I was stoned ‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone And there’s nothing short a’ dying That’s half as lonesome as the sound Of the sleeping city sidewalk And Sunday morning coming down […]
Delta Bohemian and CLARKSDELTA T-Shirts
May 4, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Bohemian® and CLARKSDELTA T-Shirts Back in stock! Our First Edition Delta Bohemian T-Shirts were first introduced in 2011. This is a super comfortable, military green/hemp colored, pre-shrunk t-shirt with Delta Bohemian® across the front. We have been told by many this is their favorite t-shirt ever! The brands we use are Authentic Pigment and […]
CLICK MAGAZINE Hit the Road in March 2017
May 4, 2017 Leave a Comment
CLICK MAGAZINE hit the road, Jack, for their new March 2017 issue. Editor Casey Hilder contacted Chilly Billy and requested an unexpected and unsolicited sit-down with Clarksdale’s Delta Bohemians. In addition to the Up Front Interview with us called “A Delta Bohemian Rhapsody,” they feature
CLARKSDALE GOSPEL MUSIC POWER HOUR
May 3, 2017 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale Gospel Music Power Hour will make its debut on Sunday, May 7, 2017 in Downtown Clarksdale. You are invited to the Delta Avenue Park (200 block) from 2:30-3:30PM for an hour of recorded, uplifting gospel music in what The Delta Bohemian® is calling FLAMING SWORD OF JOSHUA SPIRIT OF TRUTH GOSPEL MUSIC POWER HOUR. I don’t know about you, […]
Delta Bohemian Examines Faith in the Mississippi Delta
April 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
Faith is a crucial component in the lives of most Deltans, and to understand the Mississippi Delta it is imperative to be acutely cognizant of the prominence faith in the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible plays informing and guiding individual and collective Deep South identities. The Delta Bohemian’s voice—often raspy, quiet, unexpected, or even unintelligible—is […]
Senator Roger Wicker to address Teen Substance Abuse
March 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
This is encouraging news! United States Senator Roger Wicker to address adolescent substance abuse at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorating the opening of Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center on Tuesday, May 30th, at the facility in Oxford, Mississippi.
Jimmy Hughes tunes his dial to 88.1 XRDSfm
February 13, 2017 4 Comments
Jimmy Hughes made my day! While walking across the intersection of Yazoo and East 2nd Street last Friday,
Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash – MONDAY at 4!
January 27, 2017 1 Comment
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 High School Marching Band AND the award-winning Delta Blues Museum Band. THAT is reason enough to go!! Support these young people from the Mississippi Delta. Let’s […]
KEEP CLARKSDALE RESPONSES from People Who Care
January 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
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 weeks ago. The intent was to solicit ideas and provide a forum for anybody wanting to voice suggestions on how to Keep Clarksdale and continue to […]
Touring Serendipity Connects Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenwood
January 13, 2017 Leave a Comment
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 will encounter. Expect the unexpected. Expect it.
How do we KEEP CLARKSDALE and continue to draw folks here?
January 3, 2017 11 Comments
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. I will not address individuals or specific entities in this post as I muse out loud about how to Keep Clarksdale and where it might […]
WXXO – XRDS.fm Now On Air in Clarksdale
November 30, 2016 10 Comments
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 blues and roots radio station, known as XRDS.fm. The station broadcasts from Downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi at 88.1 FM, and is streaming on www.internet-radio.com/station/xrds/, as well […]
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees
November 7, 2016 1 Comment
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 the lord above ‘Have mercy, save poor Bob, if you please’ — Robert Johnson The Faustian myth regarding fabled bluesman Robert Johnson selling his soul […]
Delta Business Journal Features Clarksdale Delta Advocate
October 28, 2016 2 Comments
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 the DBJ hired Clarksdale native Randall Haley, freelance writer and senior managing editor of HottyToddy.com, to do a story on Delta Bohemian® Magical Madge Marley […]
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