By Poor William MEMPHIS, Tennessee VIDEOS in post A “way cool” fourth-floor loft apartment in downtown Memphis provided a fine, urban backdrop for Clarksdale artist Joey Young to show his “stuff” last Sunday evening. Poor William tagged along to cover the event, drink some wine, chew on some black beans and flans and portage Joey’s […]
Joey Young: Tallahatchie County Boy & Clarksdale Artist Shows His Stuff in Memphis
December 9, 2011 1 Comment
The Delta Bohemian Occupies Itself
December 4, 2011 7 Comments
The Delta Bohemian Occupies Itself WATCH THE VIDEO IN POST Watch the satirical video of Poor William as he occupies The Delta Bohemian and gives his speech to himself on behalf of himself and for himself in spite of himself and beside himself. He sure does seem to like himself, except when he doesn’t. […]
What Is Going On In The World of Clarksdale? Posted 11-16-11
November 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
What’s Goin On In The World of Clarksdale? Posted 11-16-11 The holiday season is upon us. A friend of ours recently remarked, “It’s not even Halloween and Christmas decorations are in the shop windows in Clarksdale!!” Have a look at Roger Stolle and Nan Hughes’s listing of the music going on around town this week […]
Mister Gates: The Piano Man in Clarksdale
November 16, 2011 6 Comments
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) VIDEO IN POST Over seventy years ago, prior to the advent of World War II, Timothy Louis Gates repaired his first piano. And, Ladies and Gentlemen, he’s still making house calls. Incredible! Born in Jonestown, Mississippi, Gates was one of eight piano-playing siblings. “Everybody in our family played something on the piano except […]
To Australia With Love: Enjoy a Quirky Delta Bohemian Mini Movie Clarksdale Shout Out to our friends in the land down under – Yo, Australians!
November 10, 2011 12 Comments
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO IN POST John Henshall, Clarksdale semi-fixture and a known Delta Bohemian, requested that the ignoble but passionate Magical Madge and Poor William assist him with doing a quirky (we do quirky) video promoting Clarksdale, Mississippi to his Aussie counterparts in the Melbourne, Australia area. Henshall, a lover of Clarksdale and an economist/planner, […]
Watcha Doing this week in and around Clarksdale? Posted 11-2-11
November 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
Watcha Doing this week in and around Clarksdale? Posted 11-2-11 Updated 11-10-11 The Clarksdale music scene is now 7 days a week. Remember when we hardly ever had live music in town? We remember. Next music was just on the weekends. It wasn’t too long ago we had to tell tourists, “Sorry, there is nowhere […]
Snoop Dogg Does The Lyric in Oxford
November 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
Snoop Dogg Does The Lyric in Oxford PHOTOS AND VIDEO INCLUDED The Delta Bohemians cruised to Oxford this past Friday night to hear the indominable Snoop Dogg of Gin and Juice fame! Did they know they were going to be the oldest folks in the Lyric Theater? Fo No Shizzle! Solo rap artists Little […]
Clarksdale Coahoma County Airport Day at Fletcher Field
November 1, 2011 3 Comments
Clarksdale Coahoma County Airport Day at Fletcher Field PHOTOS and VIDEO INCLUDED Clarksdale Coahoma County Airport Day was held this past Saturday at Fletcher Field just outside of Clarksdale. Cool vintage planes (and a few shiny new ones) were on hand with a host of local pilots and folks who just couldn’t help being outside […]
Former Clarksdalian Writing for The Daily Beast
November 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
Former Clarksdalian Writing for The Daily Beast PHOTO GALLERY and VIDEO INCLUDED “Sometimes it makes me sad, though…Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin […]
Photos of Miss Del’s Book Signing for Nell Dickerson, Battle of the Bands at GZBC, The Help at Delta Cinema and more…
October 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Photos of Miss Del’s Book Signing of GONE for Nell Dickerson Battle of the Band Winners at GZBC The Help showing at Delta Cinema and more…
What do you want to do in and around Clarksdale? Posted 10-19-11
October 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
What do you want to do in and around Clarksdale? Posted 10-19-11 Starting this week we are only posting Things To Do on our Watcha Gonna Do page. In the past we have also included a gallery of photographs taken out and about the prior week. In the future, we will post our photo galleries […]
Filming at Red’s for “We Juke Up In Here” and Lightnin’ Malcolm with Cameron Kimbrough at RUST Restaurant
October 12, 2011 6 Comments
Filming at Red’s for “We Juke Up In Here” and Lightnin’ Malcolm with Cameron Kimbrough at RUST Restaurant VIDEOS and PHOTOS Rust Restaurant located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in Clarksdale is not only a very popular place to eat dinner and have cocktails in the bar or on the screened in porch, […]
NEW ROXY in the NEW WORLD DISTRICT has NEW LIFE thanks to ROBIN COLONAS
October 11, 2011 2 Comments
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEOS and PHOTOS Clarksdale Semi-Fixture Robert Plant along with The Delta Bohemian and many others visited the New Roxy this past Wednesday night where we heard one of our favorite duos, Lightnin’ Malcolm and Cameron Kimbrough. Enjoy the raw videos showcasing their amazing talent. Each major festival in and around Clarksdale brings with it […]
More Photos to accompany the Watcha Gonna Do With So Much To Do article. Posted 10-5-11
October 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
More Photos to accompany the Watcha Gonna Do With So Much To Do article. Posted 10-5-11 Sometimes it is just easier to stop trying to fix something and do something different. For some unknown reason our second photo gallery would not load on the Watcha Gonna Do post for 10-5-11. Maybe we can only put […]
A Mississippi State of Mind: Reflections of the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival
September 8, 2011 3 Comments
Story and Photographs by Guest Delta Bohemian Ray Proetto of Blues Power Photo CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Enjoy this account of our historical Sunflower festival by Guest Delta Bohemian writer and photographer Ray Proetto, founder of Blues Power Photo. Please check out Ray’s website and his vast array of outstanding photographs after you enjoy his story and […]
What Are You Going To Do? Do Ya Know? Posted 9-8-11
September 8, 2011 4 Comments
What Are You Going To Do? Do Ya Know? Posted 9-8-11 PHOTOS INCLUDED IN POST Three separate Mississippi River experiences, trips to Ground Zero Blues Club for election results, music at Bluesberry Cafe on a Monday, Hopson Commissary twice – once for a birthday and once for the Junction Reunion, an excellent Theatre Oxford production […]
What-What-What are you going to do in and around Clarksdale and beyond?
August 25, 2011 1 Comment
What-What-What are you going to do in and around Clarksdale and beyond? Posted 8-23-11 Updated 9-1-11 PHOTOS AND VIDEO INCLUDED We received our first promise of Fall a few days ago with reduced temps. Football has returned to the television and on the local ball fields. School is back in session and the […]
barefoot WORKSHOPS – Creating Documentary Filmmakers right here in river city Clarksdale
August 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
barefoot WORKSHOPS Creating Documentary Filmmakers right here in river city Clarksdale PHOTOS AND VIDEOS INCLUDED Did you know that Barefoot Workshops has brought 100 filmmakers and photographers from 18 countries to Clarksdale, Mississippi to produce 40 documentaries? Did you know their students have interviewed 130 people and filmed over 500 hours of footage […]
Scenes Around Clarksdale during the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival Weekend
August 17, 2011 1 Comment
Scenes Around Clarksdale Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival Clarksdale’s 24th Annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival enjoyed a rare event….relatively mild weather on Saturday and Sunday. What a blessing. The Delta Bohemian took a few photographs while out and about during the festival. Enjoy! We look forward to posting a Sunflower Festival […]
Miss Sylvia’s Voice Message for Mr. Howell
August 11, 2011 5 Comments
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) →RADIOLAND VIDEO INCLUDED← Poor William in his role as innkeeper for the Clark House Residential Inn located in the historic district of downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi fields a bevy of calls daily from all over the world. Folks love Clarksdale–birthplace of the blues. One lady from Water Valley, Mississippi called last week and left […]
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