How Should We Then Live? Episode 4 – The Lollards – VIDEO
How Should We Then Live? — Episode 4 - The Lollards. (The following text is transcribed from three spontaneous videos.) I have been doing a deep dive for a couple months into the Reformation, the Renaissance, and all the kings of England, and the church. I really have wanted to do a “How Should We Then Live” episode on the Lollards. I did one and it was just so dry even Madge looked at me and said, “Honey, I love you but I just think you are going to lose everybody.” Well, it lost me too. It was so esoteric I wasn't even sure I understood it! So, we are going to try to simplify things. Also, I need to take a break. … [Read More...]
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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 special time as the Best Day in Clarksdale but am digging this term Clarksdale Super Blues Sunday. Also, can't mention this day without a shoutout to PINETOP PERKINS (RIP)...why the celebration day (Pinetop Homecoming) even started … [Read More...]
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 AND the NEW ROXY theater. Of course, there will be other music going on all over Clarksdale including free daytime music and street busking! Make your plans to come and get your fill of outstanding music. … [Read More...]
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, like most juke runners, WAS his juke joint) passed away at 75 years old. RIP. When the first text showed up in my phone last night re: Mr. Willie Seaberry's passing, I started to try and call the juke runner — in … [Read More...]
Our Trusty Companion: Suffering
Suffering is a part of life, is it not? On Sunday, July 10, 2016, Mark Webb, the Associate Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Clarksdale, delivered an important sermon titled "Our Trusty Companion: Suffering." July 10th was the end to a distressing week for our country following the deaths of … [Read More...]
A Delta Sigh Blessing
A Delta Sigh Blessing Sunsets in the Mississippi Delta often impart a Delta Sigh Blessing. A RADIOLAND nugget from Magical Madge and Poor William while driving in the Mississippi Delta. Read along while you listen to the Radioland audio in the VIDEO. … [Read More...]
Mt. Zion Church Goodness – by Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton
On Sunday I attended Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Mt. Zion is just around the bend of the bayou and literally down the turn row from my house. In my 60 years I have driven by this iconic country church thousands of times. Often I have pulled on to the grounds and parked under its grand oak tree to eat lunch or simply take a quick break. In all of these years this Church has been a common … [Read More...]
Sunflower River Flood in Clarksdale and Coahoma County
SUNFLOWER RIVER FLOOD VIDEO IN POST By Poor William And the rains came tumblin’ down…March saw epic flooding in our celebrated corner of the universe—The Mississippi Delta. Tragically, during the Sunflower River Flood of 2016 many Clarksdale area homes were lost, many likely never to be replaced or refurbished. Our thoughts and prayers are still with those who suffered damages and … [Read More...]
What I Learned from White Lightnin Malcolm
“Always be thankful and have a thankful heart; it makes the sun shine better!” - Steve Lightnin Malcolm Anyone who has taken a precursory look at deltabohemian.com over the last five-plus years will easily ascertain Lightnin Malcolm as being Poor William’s favorite musician. His lyrics, music, work ethic and joie de vivre are as infectious as a mosquito bite in the swamplands—just a heck of a … [Read More...]
GRAND REOPENING LEVON’S BAR & GRILL
Grand Reopening Levon's Bar and Grill on the Sunflower Strip Official GRAND REOPENING LEVON'S BAR & GRILL is Thursday, May 26, 2016, featuring one of The Delta Bohemian’s favorite musicians, Lightnin' Malcolm, whose brand of Hill Country Blues will begin around 8:30 p.m. … [Read More...]
Delta Bohemian Tours Love Jeep
Introducing Delta Bohemian Tours Love Jeep CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTOS Hey Man, and Babes everywhere, this is Poor William back at the ‘puter, ready to write mostly inane chatter about this deliciously cool place we get to call home: The Mississippi Delta. I know some folks who knew me when I left for over 20 years, saying, “I ain’ comin’ back!" Well, I was wrong and damn glad … [Read More...]
Sunset Over Moon Lake
A sunset over Moon Lake never fails to remind us how thankful we are for simple beauty unparalleled. Today was no exception. The light was mystical, drawing the Magical one to water's edge...add "Shakin' in the Cradle" by the intuitive Eric Tingstad, and what ya got here folks is Delta Delight, and for this we give God thanks, and we appreciate the hell out of y'all too. … [Read More...]
CASTAWAYS – Our Only True And Faithful Companions?
“Are our only true and faithful companions castaways?” John Ruskey, on the river, Oct. 2014 Castaway: A shipwrecked person, an outcast, or anything cast adrift or thrown away. Last year at the conclusion of a three-day Mississippi River camping, canoeing and river-literature expedition, Ruskey posed the above-mentioned question regarding the faithfulness of castaways. I wrote the question … [Read More...]
THE TOUR – My Mississippi Delta Excursion with Poor William
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 was a big day for me, the day my whole trip to Clarksdale revolved about with The Tour! Delta Bohemian Chilly Billy picked me up at 10am and we headed off to the Crossroads-sign in Clarksdale. Robert Johnson's 'Crossroads' has always been symbolic to me, so the sign didn't raise goosebumps, but you simply can't leave Clarksdale without having been there. The first … [Read More...]
European Reflects on the Birthplace of the Blues
Initially, it was the history of Clarksdale, Birthplace of the Blues, that made me want to visit. Nearly all of the great old blues musicians lived in/around Clarksdale, or frequented the place at a certain point. We're talking big names here: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson ll, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and so on. There must have been something about the Delta … [Read More...]
A Thanksgiving Cogitation
A Thanksgiving Cogitation Poor William reflects on thankfulness. ⬇️ WATCH THE VIDEO ⬇️ … [Read More...]
Broadcaster Bill Bowker Fired Up About Clarksdale
By Magical Madge Watch the Video Daedalus Howell interviews the legendary Bill Bowker about his long-lasting radio broadcasting career and his love of blues music and its roots. In their exchange, beginning around minute 13:13, Howell mentions the radio host's new venture/venue by mentioning "Clarksdale....this is huge!" And they are off! … [Read More...]
Why folks come to the Mississippi Delta and Clarksdale
By Magical Madge WATCH DOCUMENTARY BELOW Our good friends Charlie and Henrietta Musselwhite love coming to Clarksdale. We are thankful to spend quality time with them during their visits. Serendipitously, Billy and I were getting some footage for a commissioned promotional Clarksdale blues music video for some clients in Australia and the Musselwhites were happy to let us capture them as … [Read More...]
The Sharecropper Family – by Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton
By Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton In 2011, while digging through a box full of vintage photographs found on the dusty shelves in the primitive office of the Quitman County Democrat, I came across a photograph that cut me to my core. The expressions of grief and pain of a rural family surrounding a little girl's lifeless body could not have been more compelling. With much reservation I posted the … [Read More...]
Richard Grant – Hooked on the Mississippi Delta
By Magical Madge More and more and more semi-fixtures, those who visit the Mississippi Delta over and over and over from far away places, leaving a piece of themselves each time, which nags and perplexes, drawing them back to find whatever it was they left, are taking a blind leap of faith and following that inner voice that beckons them to move here. Permanently. … [Read More...]
Aspen Wedding – by Mims Graeber
Publisher notes Holy Matrimony is very personal and intimate. Wedding videos help document but seldom capture the essence of the moment in time. However, I have never seen one like the Aspen : Wedding film Mims Graeber made. The emotion it evokes is authentic and that is rare. The young Mississippi filmmaker gives us a taste of what it was like to be at his mother's wedding without … [Read More...]
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Shut Me Up Sundance CD by The Wineskins
Shut Me Up Sundance CD by The Wineskins
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