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A Delta Bohemian Manifesto

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” – Paul in his letter to the Corinthian church Who doesn’t want to leave a sustainable mark before exiting this short ride of a life? How many of us avoid the uncomfortable uncertainty about what is next after we die? How often do we measure our worth according to a crooked stick—the measure of another man or … [Read More...]

Matt Rock Clarksdale House Party

Matt Rock Clarksdale House Party was an epic night of music. VIDEOS Peep at a Clarksdale house party evening for the hard-core-all-night-long-hill-country folks. Prior to two weeks ago the most serendipitous musical encounter I had experienced was in 2012 in Aussie Matt Rock’s backyard in a metal shed in Rosebud, on the coast of Melbourne, Australia, where he and his mates jammed for hours one … [Read More...]

Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver Roosevelt Noah's Jolly Cab arriving at the Clarksdale White House

Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver Been At It 50+ Years

Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver, Mr. Roosevelt Noah, born in 1946, also known as "Ro" or "Jolly," knows the streets of Clarksdale like no other. He has been ferrying folks to where they need to go for right at 50 years! "When I first started to driving cabs here in this town, we had about 30-something cabs.... We never had meters here. We just was charging by the head. When I first started driving … [Read More...]

Stephanie Cummings, Jayme Erickson, Deak Harp and Karla Burke (bride) at his shop in Clarksdale after he gave them an impromptu performance

Deak Harp Performing Impromptu for DB Touristas

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 chicks, but gave an impromptu performance for them, some French … [Read More...]

Delta Blues Museum Issues Urgent Call For Help with matching grant. Deadline 10-31-17. Use it or lose it.

Delta Blues Museum Issues URGENT CALL For Your Help

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 … [Read More...]

Delta Plein Air Artists Unite in Charleston, Mississippi for Paint the Gateway to the Delta

Delta Plein Air Artists Unite – Charleston, Mississippi

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 … [Read More...]

Wild Bill Briscoe shows his huge blue catfish to Dana Starkell and his group traveling the Mississippi River.

“Paddle to the Amazon” Adventurer Dana Starkell

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 Starkell was leading a crew of cool folks heading from Iowa to … [Read More...]

CraigCat on an Oxbow with Chilly Billy

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 a chill experience on any body of water. A … [Read More...]

Clarksdale Sunday Afternoon Music at Levon's with The Blackwater Trio

Clarksdale Sunday Afternoon Music at Levon’s Bar & Grill

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 is no better place to get to groovin’ than … [Read More...]

Sunday Morning Comin' Down in Clarksdale Town

Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down in Clarksdale Town

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 -- Kris Kristofferson writer, Johnny Cash singer Long having been a … [Read More...]

DELTA BOHEMIAN CLARKSDELTA T-SHIRTS FOR SALE

Delta Bohemian and CLARKSDELTA T-Shirts

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 Gildan soft-style, both using 100% … [Read More...]

Greatest Radio Station in the Whole Wide World

I just can’t help talking like my friend, Clarksdale’s friend and friend of Blues lovers the whole wide world over, Charlie Musselwhite. Charlie regularly refers to the whole wide world, and I do believe XRDS.FM is the greatest radio station in the whole wide world, and “I ain’t lyin,’” another Charlie phrase. And, I ain’t! … [Read More...]

CLICK MAGAZINE Hit the Road in March 2017

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 … [Read More...]

CLARKSDALE GOSPEL MUSIC POWER HOUR

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, but that kinda rolls off my … [Read More...]

Meraki Roasting Company in Clarksdale and Meraki Job Training Program in Clarksdale

Meet Meraki Job Training Program Director Ben Lewis

(VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY) Meraki Job Training Program and Meraki Roasting Company, a new destination go-to in downtown Clarksdale for youth wanting experience in the workforce and for locals and visitors to enjoy and support! … [Read More...]

Incredibly Unique Experience in Clarksdale

The following is a transcript from the above RADIOLAND VIDEO with Chilly Billy. Hey, man, I’m pissed. Where do you start? I just was patronizing an establishment in Clarksdale and had an incredibly unique experience. The person that was serving me just mentioned how ugly some people over there were treating her and how they just want something for nothing and they complain … [Read More...]

Delta Kokopelli: Faith in the Mississippi Delta

Delta Bohemian Examines Faith in the Mississippi Delta

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 always overtly or covertly … [Read More...]

Delta Kokopelli: Purging Dross. The Ugly Path

The Ugly Path: God Don’t Like Ugly

The Ugly Path. God don’t like ugly, and often a reckoning is required to turn us around when we are resolutely traveling down the ugly path. Given a choice, I would rather have a reckoning with God than man, but how much better to humble myself prior to a reckoning with anybody. The route and the end of the ugly path are …..ugly..… and God don’t like ugly. Period. … [Read More...]

Roger Wicker to address adolescent addiction recovery

Senator Roger Wicker to address Teen Substance Abuse

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. … [Read More...]