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Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest Genesis

Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest Needs a Little Help from Some Friends (CHECK OUT SPONTANEOUS VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH RED PADEN SHARING HIS THOUGHTS ON THE FESTIVAL) Red Paden, head straw boss and proprietor at Red’s Lounge—the iconic downtown Clarksdale juke joint and coolest, most intimate music venue in the whole wide world—is putting on his inaugural Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest on Saturday, … [Read More...]

DeSoto Magazine Features Delta Bohemian Tours and Kingfish

DeSoto Magazine features Delta Bohemian Tours and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram in their current August 2018 issue. Pick up a copy today! A fabulous painting of Johnny Cash is on the cover and was done by British artist, Richard Day. … [Read More...]

Take Me To The River When I Am Depressed

Take Me To The River When I Am Depressed.....but remind me to fill up the tank! There is a life lesson full of double entendres in the video. —Chilly … [Read More...]

Riparian Agrarian Prelapsarian

Riparian Agrarian Prelapsarian? Riparian: that which resides on the bank of a river. Agrarian: rural and agricultural. Prelapsarian: innocent and unspoiled before the Fall of Man. #SEEKTHEDELTA, 'cause we got all three right here in and around River City, Clarksdale, Mississippi. … [Read More...]

Clarksdale Entertainment Section of Clarksdale Press Register

Clarksdale Entertainment Section in the Press Register

By Magical Madge Clarksdale entertainment is a 7 day a week, 365 night a year thing. I know this. Well. And, I thank the Lord for it. Even though I don't get out to enjoy it as much as I once did. Age. Work. It happens. 8-) Being a focus of the new Clarksdale entertainment section of the Press Register was, I admit, an easy read. Well....one of the articles was about me. Duh. I … [Read More...]

Seek the Delta Right Next Door

Seek the Delta Right Next Door. Europeans, Australians, and internationals from all over the world plan and save, sometimes for years, to travel across the ocean to visit and experience the Mississippi Delta. Americans come from the West Coast, East Coast, Northern states and all the way from Florida to Arizona, often traveling long distances to get here. But, we are now starting to … [Read More...]

200 Plein Air Paintings in 200 Days Carol Roark Exhibit

By Magical Madge 200 plein air paintings in 200 days. Really? Having taken up the paintbrush within the past year after a very long hiatus, I still can not fathom painting a plein air painting every single day for 200 days. Delta Artist Carol Roark, recently featured in Delta Magazine, did just that. Roark set out on a journey roughly 230+ days ago to paint a plein air painting daily and do … [Read More...]

The Wineskins new “Shut Me Up Sundance” – A Review

By Magical Madge What’s normal? I know I am not normal. But in this world “we all want something, but something’s never here. We pray. We smoke. We pill. We drink. We dope and we hope. That lights always fading, as we all attempt to cope, beneath the normal sky. Real love goes floating by. Good people only lie, when they have to. When they have to.” … [Read More...]

Voyage Chicago features Clarksdale’s $Daddy Rich$ (a.k.a. Richard Crisman)

Voyage Chicago publishes article titled "Meet $Daddy Rich$ (a.k.a. Richard Crisman) in Clarksdale." Thank you Village Chicago for writing about Richard Crisman, a.k.a. $Daddy Rich$. While managing Morgan Freeman's Madidi Restaurant, I often hired Richard, aka Daddy Rich, to play in the bar on Wednesday nights. I have loved his sound, lyrics, style and music ever since. Voyage Chicago … [Read More...]

Jordi Baizan Home Concert with Alice Hasen

A new Home Concert is coming to the Clarksdale White House on Thursday, May 31st, featuring engaging singer-songwriter Jordi Baizan accompanied by Alice Hasen. … [Read More...]

Clarksdale Scenes Friday Before Juke Joint Fest 2017

Clarksdale, Mississippi - VIDEO IN POST! Greetings from Clarksdale, Mississippi, heart of the MS Delta! Juke Joint Fest 2018 is upon us and Clarksdale is hoppin’ like a jumpin’ bullfrog in Calaveras County. Magical Madge and I have hastily thrown together a get-acquainted-with-Clarksdale video I took with an iPhone while riding around Clarksdale last year on the Friday before Juke Joint … [Read More...]

Eric Tingstad Home Concert at Clarksdale White House

Grammy Winner Eric Tingstad Clarksdale Concert

THE DELTA BOHEMIANS PRESENT ERIC TINGSTAD in a HOME CONCERT Clarksdale White House Thursday, April 5, 2018 Limited Seating $15 — Purchase Tickets HERE … [Read More...]

THE THREAT: Heed the Reaper

WARNING: See end of post! THE THREAT: Heed the Reaper by William Prentiss It started with a threat... While attending Bible college, in another life, I memorized a proverb describing the condition of men with little self-constraint: “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.” I was aware of this, intellectually. … [Read More...]

Whistle and Felicia on the Levee on a Delta Bohemian Tour

Delta Wildlife seen on ONE DB Tour

WATCH VIDEO Every DB Tour is unique and rife with Delta wildlife. We are blessed not only to live around the most felicitous folks in the world, but also we enjoy some of the most extraordinary domesticated and undomesticated wildlife to be found—yes, even our domestics retain some wonder and wildness due to a lack of urban restrictions. … [Read More...]

POSSUM ON THE PASS

WATCH VIDEO While walking on the fabled Yazoo Pass this morning I came across an o' possum trottin’, so I filmed him and made up a spontaneous poem while walking that would make Byron, Shelley and Keats nauseous. Everything we do on The Delta Bohemian® is extemporaneous, low tech and serendipitous, but it usually captures some Delta Essence—a fragrance not replicated anywhere else in the … [Read More...]

Hopson Commissary: Monday Evening Comin’ Down

WATCH VIDEO I am increasingly drawn to Hopson Commissary’s Monday evening, acoustic, “comin’-down-easy” from the weekend, musical experience beginning at 6:00pm accompanied by free food (always a pot of something owners James & Cathy Butler have whipped up) and free music (please tip the musician 8-) ) usually by gifted, self-effacing local musician/writer Marshall Drew, whose … [Read More...]

Delta Magazine HOT TOPICS

Delta Magazine HOT TOPICS is a fun, two-page section spotlighting four subjects trending in Mississippi, especially the Delta. When Delta Magazine arrives in my mailbox, HOT TOPICS is my immediate go-to! I'm curious to see what the latest crazes are in our great state. … [Read More...]

Lovin’ OXFORD MAGAZINE Lovin’

Lovin' Oxford Magazine and its lovin'. We are so very grateful for the love Oxford Magazine shows fellow Mississippians. Have you read one yet? Two recent articles titled "A Home Built For Three" and "Last-Minute Summer Getaways" featured Clarksdalians. It's never too late to read about Clarksdale. 8-) … [Read More...]

8th CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL

CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI — The 8th annual Clarksdale Film Festival returns to "Bluestown, USA" — Clarksdale, Mississippi — Friday-Saturday, January 26-27. And it's going to be a real house party. "This is a curated film festival, so it's not just 'whatever films came out this year,'" said co-founder Roger Stolle. "We premiere new works, of course, but we also showcase films that we think … [Read More...]

Legends Magazine December 2017 January 2018 cover features Delta Bohemian Tours

Legends Magazine Loves the Delta

Legends Magazine loves the Mississippi Delta and we are so thankful. FIRST, watch this Video of Chilly Billy talking about this post. SECOND, read gifted writer Julian Rankin's article titled "From the Land of Cotton, Delta Bohemian Tours." Julian is the Director of Art and Public Exchange for Mississippi Museum of Art. See complete text below or read it on Legends … [Read More...]