Delta Bohemian Seminars:Book Study ofImmanuel: Reflections on the Life of ChristBy Michael Card The Delta Bohemian® is pleased to announce our second (2nd) book study in the Delta Bohemian Book Study series. Our first seminar focused on “The Secret History” by Pulitzer Prize winner and Mississippi author, Donna Tartt.
Hooker Grocer and Eatery in Downtown Clarksdale
June 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
April 9, 2022 – Killa meal at Hooker Grocer and Eatery in downtown Clarksdale tonight!! Sasha Monty is truly a paragon & purveyor of Epicurean delights! Greg Birdsong is the consistently most felicitous & talented bartender known to mankind (made Chilly Billy Howell a delightful mocktail for my alcoholic ass), the table service by Sarah […]
My Last Meal At The Fabled Ranchero
June 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
My last meal at the fabled Ranchero was on April 16, 2022. The Ranchero was started by Nelms Mitchell in 1959, the year before my birth! Chris Green, dedicated daughter and descendant, has kept it alive and flourishing during good times and difficult times! I love Chris! Truly, categorically, and indubitably the kindest, always […]
Clarksdalian Bill Harlow Has Always Liked Cars
October 16, 2020 1 Comment
Clarksdalian Bill Harlow has always liked cars. How many of you remember when Bill’s dad had the Friars Point Motor Company? Young Bill worked in the parts department back then and grew up around motor vehicles. He especially enjoyed his days of competitive horseshoe mud racing. “I like racing cars!” he said with a devilish […]
Hang Your Holiday Hats at Hopson Commissary
October 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
The world has changed; that’s a fact! From large cities to rural gems—like Clarksdale—economies and social structures have taken a hit due to Covid-19 and “all the stuff, real and imagined” resulting from its presence! Hopson Commissary, a longtime historical treasure in the North Mississippi Delta, is changing too; but open in the fall on […]
Kingfish Crowned King of the Blues
May 4, 2020 1 Comment
Christone Ingram, aka Kingfish – Crowned King of the Blues The kind, God-loving 21-year-old is riding a humongous wave of well-deserved recognition tonight from blues music lovers worldwide and from his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi. We couldn’t be prouder. Last night, during the virtual 2020 Blues Music Awards ceremony, Kingfish, who was nominated for 5 […]
A Clarksdale LIVE MUSIC VENUES Guide
November 14, 2019 1 Comment
Clarksdale Live Music Venues – our little Mississippi Delta town features live music 365 days a year! Where are the best places to hear live music in Clarksdale? This list will help, starting with our favorite, Red’s Blues Club. During festivals more music venues open and buskers are found on many streets. This Guide highlights our regular spots during non-festival […]
Top Ten Juke Joint Rules
November 14, 2019 1 Comment
Top Ten Juke Joint Rules for visiting Clarksdale’s fabled juke joints, blues clubs, music venues, etc., will ease your mind and put you square in the middle of cool. We might be a land of affable-yet-pugnacious characters, eccentrics, crazies, lazies, loosey-goozies and profound pontificators, but we do appreciate a nod to our societal norms, if the concept of […]
Best Places to Stay in Clarksdale
November 14, 2019 4 Comments
Looking for the best places to stay in Clarksdale, Mississippi? Considering a visit to the Mississippi Delta? Stay in Clarksdale, the heart of it all! With a population just over 17,000, the cradle of the blues boasts live music 365 days a year. We have many spots to grab a bite to eat where one can break […]
DBJ Coins Roger Stolle as All Things Clarksdale and the Blues
July 1, 2019 Leave a Comment
Delta Business Journal coins Ohio-native transplant Roger Stolle as “All Things Clarksdale and the Blues.” Publisher Scott Coopwood writes an in-depth account about Roger, the marketing mastermind who now passionately claims Clarksdale and the Mississippi Delta as his home…..and we are so thankful he has!
Red talking about Red’s Old Timers Blues Festival in Clarksdale
May 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
Red talking about his 2nd Annual Old Timers Blues Festival to be held Saturday, May 25, 2019, from 11am-8pm in the MLK Park in Clarksdale. FREE!!!
ANTHONY WILSON & MATT ROLLINGS HOME CONCERT
April 25, 2019 2 Comments
The Delta Bohemians present ANTHONY WILSON & MATT ROLLINGS in a Clarksdale White House Home Concert Series on Friday, May 10th at 7:30PM 325 W 2nd Street, Clarksdale Serendipity brought me together with Anthony Wilson. He was a guest at the Clarksdale White House. As I was telling him about our Home Concert […]
USA Today Best Historic Small Town Contest Nominates Clarksdale
April 24, 2019 Leave a Comment
USA Today Best Historic Small Town Readers’ Choice Award Contest nominates Clarksdale. We are excited Clarksdale is in the running out of a total of 20 nominees!!! They will select the Top 10 from this list. The race is on to get our votes in and help our beloved home town, the heart of the […]
Expedia Names Clarksdale As The Best Place To Escape In Mississippi
January 22, 2019 2 Comments
Daily I get a lot of junk mail; I’m sure you do too. But yesterday, while rifling through my emails, I received one I would normally have put in the category of unsolicited. Nope. This one caught my attention. The Subject line read “Expedia names Clarksdale as the best place to escape in Mississippi.”
Bubba O’Keefe New Clarksdale-Coahoma County Tourism Director
December 14, 2018 Leave a Comment
By Roger Stolle CONGRATS to Bubba O’Keefe, welcomed as Clarksdale-Coahoma County’s new tourism director at the Coahoma County Tourism Commission’s monthly board meeting Wednesday, December 12, 2018. He’ll start January 1st.
It Ain’t Snitchin’ if It’s True; It Ain’t Wrong if It’s Right
December 10, 2018 2 Comments
It Ain’ Snitchin’ if It’s True; It Ain’ Wrong if It’s Right “When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.” — Ecclesiastes 8:11 Recently, we were the victims of a crime of intrusion and opportunity, when we contacted Clarksdale Police Department and the Mayor Chuck Espy, haste was […]
Son of the South – MOHEAD Home Concert
August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment
Son of the South – MOHEAD Home Concert The Delta Bohemian® is jazzed to present local friend, musician and quintessential Son of the South, John Mohead, who just released a new album and will be performing on Thursday evening, September 27th, for the Clarksdale White House Home Concert Series.
Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest Genesis
August 20, 2018 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Riparian Agrarian Prelapsarian
August 4, 2018 Leave a Comment
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.
Seek the Delta Right Next Door
June 28, 2018 Leave a Comment
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 […]
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