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Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 4-13-11

Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 4-13-11 PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF PAGE!! What’s going on in and around Clarksdale and/or Coahoma County…and beyond! (VIDEO WITH POST!) Juke Joint Festival 2011 has finally...
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Metro Rednecks

POOR WILLIAM'S WHIMS:   Metro Rednecks By POOR WILLIAM Metro redneck is not necessarily an oxymoron—words that don’t go together, but it might raise the ire of those with latent...
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A Conversation with Pinetop Perkins

A Conversation with Pinetop Perkins By POOR WILLIAM The legendary Grammy-winning blues pianist Willie “Pinetop” Perkins died Monday, March 21, 2011, in Austin, TX. Pinetop was slated to attend his...
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RUST on another Saturday night with the Side Street Steppers

RUST Restaurant on another Saturday night with the Side Street Steppers RUST Restaurant and its newly hung artwork by local artists played host last Friday night to the Side Street...
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Mullet Theology: Blessing or Curse

By PONTIFICUS MINIMUS CLARKSDALE, Mississippi What say ye Pontificus? Mullet theology? Doth thou jest or are thou creating a new belief about God? Neither one my fair friend, I am...
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Get It Done – a music video in the making in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, CLARKSDALE!

By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Behind the scenes at Vincent Productions in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in Clarksdale, Mississippi, producer, songwriter and musician Gary Vincent has been working...
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Mr. February 2011 – Sharp Dressed Man in Clarksdale, MS

Sharp Dressed Man - Mr. February 2011CLARKSDALE, Mississippi There's MORE................ (more…)
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I’ve Missed the Gym

By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi NOTE: The reason Poor William and Pontificus both love to refer to themselves in the third person is because many politicians and preachers do it...
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But isn’t it Dirty? No, it’s the Sunflower!

By DRIFTWOOD JOHNNIE (John Ruskey is a contributing writer to The Delta Bohemian) Sat, Feb 19th @ 12 noon -- Meeting for Friends of the Sunflower River -- at Quapaw...
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Milk Toast We Ain’t!

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi LISTEN TO THE RECORDING of the Delta Bohemian leaving Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta and headed to Oxford HERE: Poor William: We Ain't Milk Toast Poor William felt like pontificating, as...
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REDS BLUES LOUNGE: Tips in da Bucket

A recent night in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in Clarksdale, MS, The Delta Bohemian found himself at Red's Blues Lounge where Mary "Action" Jackson was singing with the...
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