Do You Know Charlie Musselwhite?

By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi  (VIDEO) Ladies and genulmens, what do you get on a Thursday night when ya cross at the Crossroads a recently relocated Deep Blues Festival with a serendipitous encounter on the back porch at the Shack Up Inn late night, all made possible by Magical Madge’s curiosity about everybody who comes to […]

Juke Joint Love

By WILLIAM PRENTISS It had been over a year to no avail. Simone and Darryl never met, even then. She had been on stage and he had been hungrily eyeing her– not a morality-leaching hunger, but one of expectancy laced with awe–from behind the fellow in the crazy-ass hat. Simone had never been stopped dead […]

Clarksdale, MS itinerant Japanese Blues Musician and GZBC Semi-fixture “EY”

  (Clarksdale, Mississippi) EY is a semi-fixture in Clarksdale, MS and can be seen often in Ground Zero Blues Club as well as many other locations around town. We call him a semi-fixture because he makes his annual pilgrimage from