Mississippi Club shows love to many in Mississippi using its website and through social media by tirelessly sharing Mississippi good news. The creator of Mississippi Club, Rosalin Moss, wanted to get in touch with old classmates and relatives back in 2004. One day she up and decided to take a Mississippi road trip back to […]
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 […]
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.”
Lovin’ OXFORD MAGAZINE Lovin’
January 24, 2018 Leave a Comment
Lovin’ Oxford Magazine and its lovin’. We are so very grateful for the love Oxford Magazine shows fellow Mississippians. Have you read one yet? Two recent articles titled “A Home Built For Three” and “Last-Minute Summer Getaways” featured Clarksdalians. It’s never too late to read about Clarksdale. đ
8th CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL
January 22, 2018 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI â The 8th annual Clarksdale Film Festival returns to “Bluestown, USA” â Clarksdale, Mississippi â Friday-Saturday, January 26-27. And it’s going to be a real house party. “This is a curated film festival, so it’s not just ‘whatever films came out this year,’” said co-founder Roger Stolle. “We premiere new works, of […]
How do we KEEP CLARKSDALE and continue to draw folks here?
January 3, 2017 11 Comments
The following thoughts on the status of my hometown bear no reflection on anyone or any entity that I might have an integral or loose association with business-wise or personally. I will not address individuals or specific entities in this post as I muse out loud about how to Keep Clarksdale and where it might […]
Mt. Zion Church Goodness – by Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton
July 12, 2016 Leave a Comment
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 […]
A Thanksgiving Cogitation
November 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
A Thanksgiving Cogitation Poor William reflects on thankfulness. âŹď¸ WATCH THE VIDEO âŹď¸
Classic ROBERT BILBO WALKER at Reds Blues Club
September 17, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge CLASSIC VIDEO If you have never seen this unique performer, then you need to go to Red’s Blues Club and hear Robert “Bilbo” Walker live, Saturday, September 19, 2015 in downtown Clarksdale. In the words of Roger Stolle, “Don’t miss the wig, suit, duckwalk and one-handed guitar playing.”
Another Mississippi Delta Saturday Night
May 5, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM VIDEO and PHOTOS Delta folks ainâ scared of a party and thatâs for damn sure. Itâs always on in the Mississippi Delta: whether high-browing at the Country Club or low-browing just about any-damn-where-else. We Deltans love to party whether at a cocktail party, a tailgating event at one of the universities, or for […]
Hunt Marketing is Hot on the Trot from Oxford and Tupelo
April 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge VIDEOS and PHOTOS If you are on the Oxford Square, look up! Above the fabulous boutique Nella (formerly Duvall’s), you can see and visit a marketing firm hot on the trot for businesses eager to get with today’s times! What started out quietly as W.G.H. & Associates, first in Washington, DC and then in […]
Coahoma County Students aiming for Washington
April 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi We received a sweet note from a local teacher at Coahoma Country Jr. – Sr. High School in Clarksdale. Read it and respond if you will. We did.Â
Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale
April 7, 2015 1 Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi PHOTOS FROM PAST JUKE JOINT FESTIVALS PAGE MAY BE SLOW TO LOAD DUE TO MANY PHOTOGRAPHS It’s Juke Joint Festival time and that means live music abounds everywhere and tourists start piling into Downtown Clarksdale. It’s been a long, cold winter. Let’s get to jukin’! Pics from a few past Juke Joint Festivals.
90 Days of Peace Rally in Clarksdale
March 26, 2015 2 Comments
By MAGICAL MADGE Do you want peace in Clarksdale? (Or do you want to turn a blind eye and hope the bloodshed will just go away?) Do you want to take a stand and say “No More” to senseless violence? (Or do you want to continue thinking maybe it won’t happen to you?)
VACATION RENTALS IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
March 11, 2015 1 Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE Every day I look forward to my email from Memphis StyleBlueprint and on my birthday a special one landed in my inbox. The title got me immediately–“CONFESSIONS OF (AND TIPS FROM) A VACATION RENTAL JUNKIE.”
Lucious Spiller Band at Red’s Lounge in Clarksdale
January 5, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO & PHOTOS âI really didnât shoot her; I just kicked her to the curb!â — Lucious Spiller Last yearâs Solo International Blues Challenge second place winner, the indomitable Lucious Spiller, gave a rave performance Saturday night at Redâs Lounge in downtown Clarksdale. I no longer record at Redâs but […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Delta Bohemian!!!!
December 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
Clarksdale, Mississippi Magical Madge and I want to thank our Business Partners (check âem out on our website), our Subscribers (if you haven’t subscribed do it now. It’s free!), and folksânear and farâwho love the Mississippi Delta and all it has to offer:
Red Paden Birthday Bash at Red’s Lounge
November 19, 2014 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO AND PHOTOS Sunday night was a time of great festivity for Clarksdaliansâ natives, transplants, and miscreantsâwho love Red Paden and his world-renowned, one-of-a-kind, ainât-nothing-like-it blues lounge. We celebrated Redâs birthday in typical Redâs Lounge fashion: cold beer, warm BBQ, hot and milky blues, and sizzlinâ moonshine!
Lois Lowry Shares Her Story with Clarksdale
October 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi Library full, mostly womenâyoung to oldâkids on iPhones, growing up fast, three young ladies in white headdresses, teachers with list for extra credit, several young Mennonite girls, faces flush with innocence and beauty, wearing printed dresses, small groups of rovers patrolling looking for friends, all well behaved, light chatter a pleasant […]
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