By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Recently, four of us headed to the hill country around Charleston, MS to do some blackberry pickin’. Joey Young, a local artist, good friend, and important member of the Shack Up Inn and Rust Restaurant team, invited Madge, my daughter Galilee and me to go pick some wild blackberries on his […]
Which Marshall Bouldin do you know ?
June 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE FLORENCE MARLEY HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi INCLUDES HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTICLES FROM CLARKSDALE “For his highly developed mind, his understanding of human nature, his beautiful vision, his great executive ability, his powers of leadership, his conscientious desires to uphold the highest ideals of honesty, truth and sincerity and loyalty, his friends loved and admired […]
The Mississippi Delta is for Killin’ Snakes
June 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO During the summer, I chop! I chop weeds and I kill snakes—both kinds—real and unseen in the Mississippi Delta! One cannot chop weeds in row crops next to the proverbial and always present turn row canal and be too afraid of snakes. Canal is a bit of a stretch in […]
Charlie Musselwhite Loves Delta Bohemian Excursions
June 13, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE & POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY Multiple Blues Music Award winner, Charlie Musselwhite, who has been on tour with Ben Harper for their Grammy-Award-winning blues album “Get Up” has been coming to the Mississippi Delta since he was a child, but recently he admitted that he has felt more connected to the […]
Maude Schuyler Clay DELTA DOGS book signings
June 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE GREENWOOD, OXFORD, JACKSON, CLEVELAND, SUMNER, CLARKSDALE, VICKSBURG, PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi Like you encouraged me to do, Maudie, I am waiting to purchase my DELTA DOGS at a local Mississippi bookstore. You will find me at one of the book shops listed below waiting in line to get your “John Hancock” in person on my newly purchased […]
Westside Family Medical Clinic picks SUMNER
May 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE SUMNER, Mississippi If you grew up in the Mississippi Delta, you never thought twice about having to drive to get where you wanted to go. An hour drive to Lusco’s Restaurant is one of our favorites. Ole Miss is an hour and 15. Then you have to figure that same amount of time on the back end […]
Anthony Bourdain and the Mississippi Delta
May 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
By MAGICAL MADGE CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Just read the Anthony Bourdain blog post about his CNN Parts Unknown show, featuring his recent jaunt through the land of cotton. Poor William hosted them in Clarksdale at the Clark House during their stay here. It tickled me to see a quick shot of Billy alongside his friend, Red […]
Titties, Chicken Wings, & a Fake Death – Steve Kolbus
May 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
Musician Steve Kolbus riding on DB Pedicab with Billy Howell By BILLY “POOR WILLIAM” HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi – VIDEOS IN POST What do chicken wings, titties and a true story about a woman faking her own death have to do with each other? Steve Kolbus. Steve Kolbus is an iconic local musician, Clarksdale transplant, nice guy, great promoter, multi-vocational window […]
TEN Juke Joint Festival Do’s and Don’ts
April 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
By BILLY “POOR WILLIAM” HOWELL (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi)
Bluesberry Cafe Kicks Off Juke Joint Festival 2014
April 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
By BILLY “POOR WILLIAM” HOWELL (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) VIDEO IN POST Monday night saw the official/unofficial advent of the world-renowned, 11th Juke Joint Festival 2014 in Clarksdale, Mississippi—heart of the Mississippi Delta and birthplace of the blues. Bluesberry Café, bastion of live Monday night blues in Clarksdale, owned by Carol and Art “Bongo Daddy” Crivaro, had a […]
Pastry Chef E’Lane Bobo Williams Shines
February 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
A sweet, Mississippi Delta, Clarksdale girl headed to Memphis soon after studying Patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. She landed behind the scenes as the Pastry Chef for the artsy, open kitchen Interim Restaurant and Bar. Her name is E’Lane Bobo Williams; her father originally hailed from Bobo, Mississippi, a little town about 5 […]
Delta Magazine launches “The Ultimate Insider’s Guide”
January 28, 2014 1 Comment
By Magical Madge (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) In the not-so-distant past a Delta native returned home with big ideas. Scott Coopwood launched his beloved Delta Magazine in 2003. It’s always a treat when Delta Magazine arrives; it feels like getting a special present. The latest issue has long been the topic of conversations at cocktail parties, coffee shops and dinner tables. […]
SHOUTOUT to Australia from Clarksdale Mayor Luckett
December 4, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge (Clarksdale, Mississippi) PHOTOS and VIDEO in POST! For some reason, when John Henshall says “Jump,” we Jump! Henshall, Principal of Essential Economics in Melbourne, our generous host during our trip down under last year, was having another one of his Blues n’ Ribs Party with none other than the Delta’s own Watermelon Slim and […]
Jerry’s Dreamboat, Opening Right on Q – in Clarksdale!
November 29, 2013 2 Comments
By Poor William (Clarksdale, Mississippi) PHOTOS IN POST Have a hankering for unique Mississippi Delta hot tamales? Need a fix of some killer BBQ? Then look no further than downtown Clarksdale, MS, birthplace of the blues. Jerry McCray, of Jerry’s Hot Tamales, and Charles Evans, owner of Clark House Residential Inn, have teamed up to […]
Gator Bait: A True Story
October 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
By The Poorest of Williams (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) Folks outside Coahoma County been rather churlish of late, arguing all about alligators caught in the 700-plus-a-few-pounds category. Well, that ain’ nuthin’! Me and Mr. Lil John been wrasslin’ ones bigger than that for years. I ain’ lying. Ask him? Okay, Captain Safety don’t mess with gators, he […]
The Frank McClory Project NEW CD Release Celebration
October 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
(CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) Two friends had a crazy idea and then they actually did it. On Tuesday, October 15 at 3pm, immediately following their live interview with “Sunshine” Sonny Payne, photographer Gary Duane Buth and his gifted musician friend Frank McClory, both of The Frank McClory Project, will land at the Delta Bohemian on Delta Avenue […]
Happy Birthday Delta Bohemian Guest House!
August 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
by Marilyn Trainor Storey – The MS Design Maven (Clarksdale, Mississippi) MY DELTA: Art in the City Apartment, Happy Birthday Delta Bohemian Guest House! It is no secret, I spend a lot of time in Clarksdale, in the Mississippi Delta, my birthplace and home of The Blues. I first blogged about Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 2011 […]
Delta Sunset in Summer: A Promise for Tomorrow
August 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Poor William (Clarksdale, Mississippi) As a late-afternoon field rider, I now realize why my father, Roundman, used to ramble tortoise-like down the middle of turn rows checking crops and nervously biting worn fingernails during summer, searching for non-existent rain clouds. I can still smell tobacco, newsprint, and mounds of rotting cottonseed smoldering with moisture […]
DB Trivia Night at Stone Pony August 7th. It’s all about the Delta.
August 6, 2013 Leave a Comment
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) Delta Bohemian Trivia Night at Stone Pony Pizza! August 7th. Y’all Come! The Delta Bohemian will be hosting its third monthly trivia night tomorrow at Stone Pony Pizza on Delta Avenue starting soon after 7pm. Categories you ask? DELTA BOHEMIAN, MISSISSIPPI DELTA, and DELTA BLUES! Poor William never was a trickster when he taught […]
Kathryn’s Restaurant at Moon Lake is only minutes from Clarksdale
July 16, 2013 6 Comments
By Magical Madge and Poor William (Dundee, Mississippi) VIDEO When I heard in the Spring of 2012 that blues musician John Mohead, along with wife Jenn and sons Jack and Henry, had purchased Moon Lake’s Kathryn’s Restaurant, I knew the place was destined to make a comeback. We had seen ownership change numerous times over […]
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