By Magical Madge WATCH DOCUMENTARY BELOW Our good friends Charlie and Henrietta Musselwhite love coming to Clarksdale. We are thankful to spend quality time with them during their visits. Serendipitously, Billy and I were getting some footage for a commissioned promotional Clarksdale blues music video for some clients in Australia and the Musselwhites were happy […]
The Sharecropper Family – by Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton
October 26, 2015 3 Comments
By Guest Bohemian Jaby Denton In 2011, while digging through a box full of vintage photographs found on the dusty shelves in the primitive office of the Quitman County Democrat, I came across a photograph that cut me to my core. The expressions of grief and pain of a rural family surrounding a little girl’s […]
Richard Grant – Hooked on the Mississippi Delta
October 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge More and more and more semi-fixtures, those who visit the Mississippi Delta over and over and over from far away places, leaving a piece of themselves each time, which nags and perplexes, drawing them back to find whatever it was they left, are taking a blind leap of faith and following that inner voice […]
Mississippi Delta Sunset with Delta Dog Gunny
September 17, 2015 1 Comment
By Poor William VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” — Mila Kundera, Czech writer I doubt Kundera […]
Delta Roadtrip Links Clarksdale and Helena
July 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge – A Delta Roadtrip is something I have done all my life. Being born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, traveling the highways from town to town is something we grew up doing over and over and over again. During high school, it was what we did when not in school. We […]
Delta Design
July 14, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord […]
Another Mississippi Delta Saturday Night
May 5, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM VIDEO and PHOTOS Delta folks ain’ scared of a party and that’s for damn sure. It’s 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 […]
Santana Tandem Cycles in Mississippi Delta again!
May 4, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE It was a cold, rainy Spring morning and dozens upon dozens of tandem bicyclers from all over the United States and Europe were not letting that dampen their spirits. They were hungry for some grub by our treasured musician and chef John Mohead, co-owner with wife Jenn Mohead of Kathryn’s on Moon Lake, a […]
Coen of My New Orleans captures the Mississippi Delta
May 4, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE New Orleans, a destination for millions of travelers worldwide, is talking about the benefits of “Traveling the Mississippi Delta: A land of myths and legends.” Cheré Coen with myNewOrleans.com wrote a fascinating article about three of our towns, Greenwood, Indianola and Clarksdale, and touched on the mystical points in between, the back roads, […]
Easter in Sumner, Mississippi Delta Style
April 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE Happy Easter everyone. This is my favorite day of the entire year. He is risen! Here is a look back at two different Easter Sundays celebrated with my Vance family and my father in 2004 and with life-long friends and my husband Billy in 2014, both in my hometown of Sumner, Mississippi Delta style. […]
Longhaired Republicans, Politics and Facebook Rants
March 12, 2015 9 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Wow! What a week it has been for Facebook pontificators, polarizing politicians, and armchair pundits: Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to the house about Iran, the Selma commemorative march, Hillary’s emails or the lack thereof, Ferguson closure to some degree, and ISIS, always ISIS.
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.”
Alligators in the Mississippi Delta
March 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE VIDEO and PHOTOS Yesterday, Storm Thor blew through the Mississippi Delta. It left sleet, ice and snow in its wake. We are not used to this kind of bitter weather here and I tend to go into a cocoon state, hesitating to venture out. Period. It got me to wondering what was going […]
Give ’em Hell CeDell – “Last Man Standing”
March 5, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Tarzan is no longer playing in black and white on Saturday afternoons, at least not in the Mississippi Delta, so whatcha gonna do this Saturday afternoon, March 7th, from 3:00—5:00? Why not mosey on down to 1 Blues Alley in downtown Clarksdale, birthplace of the blues and host to the oldest music museum […]
Turnrow Book Company has Kornegay SOIL on it’s hands
March 4, 2015 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE Rarely do I visit the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood without stopping by Turnrow Book Company on Howard Street. If Poor William is with me, it’s imperative, but we always make a pact not to go crazy buying more than we can afford.
Mississippi Delta Rapids and a Rider ‘fore the Storm
January 8, 2015 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Flat lands got rapids too, ya know! The Mississippi Delta has long been heralded as having some of the most fertile soil this side of the River Nile; we ‘bout as flat too! Drainage ditches skirting crop turn rows are a fixture in God’s country and when it rains […]
Mississippi Delta Cat Trumps Delta Dog, Every Time
January 5, 2015 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEO Mississippi Delta Dogs are an inescapable, loosely cherished constant in our beloved homeland, but they are not the cat’s meow! Cat will get a fella every time! A friend of Poor William’s is fond of saying that you can lead a man off in to the Grand Canyon with one […]
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 ‘em out on our website), our Subscribers (if you haven’t subscribed do it now. It’s free!), and folks—near and far—who love the Mississippi Delta and all it has to offer:
MS Delta Wildlife
December 12, 2014 2 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM VIDEO Hey Man, we love the blues in the Delta, but we also are eat up with all our wildlife. Magical Madge and I, along with many a Deltan, take great pleasure in late afternoon and evening drives in the Mississippi Delta.
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 Clarksdalians— natives, transplants, and miscreants—who love Red Paden and his world-renowned, one-of-a-kind, ain’t-nothing-like-it blues lounge. We celebrated Red’s birthday in typical Red’s Lounge fashion: cold beer, warm BBQ, hot and milky blues, and sizzlin’ moonshine!
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