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Third Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival

By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO!) What do Coahoma and Sonoma Counties have in common other than alliteration? Well, some awesome blues, Lagunitas beer, Bill Bowker, Charlie Musselwhite, Charles Evans,...
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Kingfish plays guitar at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest

By POOR WILLIAMClarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) With the annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival officially starting Thursday night at the VIP Tent, Clarksdale has already begun hearing great music. Red’s...
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Lucious Spiller Wins New Fans Everywhere He Goes

By MAGICAL MADGE MARLEY HOWELL CLARKSDALE, Mississippi -- VIDEOS  and PHOTOS in post When we hear blues man Lucious Spiller is leaving his hometown of Little Rock and headed to...
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Juke Joint Juggernaut

The Worm Has Turned for Clarksdale By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi  — PHOTOS IN POST Whoomp, there it went! Clarksdale’s 11th Annual Juke Joint Festival was insane, rad, gnarly, cool, groovy, boss, far-out,...
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Madge Marley Howell loves Red’s Blues Club

Madge Marley Howell talks about Red’s Blues Club. Young & Free Columnist Corinne Vance There is no place like Clarksdale's Red's Blues Club, Red's Place, Red's...
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There’s Something to Say for Going Astray – by Corinne Vance

Young & Free ColumnistBy CORINNE VANCE (includes photo gallery) It’s more than easy to get caught in the routine of doing the same thing over and over again. As human...
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Sounds Around Town in Clarksdale April 24 – 30th 2013

Presented by ROGER STOLLE of Cat Head(Clarksdale, Mississippi) Here is your SOUNDS AROUND TOWN in CLARKSDALE. Listing of all the Live Music going on in town including Red's Blues Lounge, Ground...
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Displaced Deltan Falls in Love with Hill Country Blues. It happens!

By POOR WILLIAM, a tone-deaf blues-aficionado(Clarksdale, Mississippi) VIDEO and PHOTOS Familiar tale? “Hey man, we didn’t appreciate what was in our own backyard; now we get it!” Could be a...
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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...
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Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-31-11

Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-31-11 Watcha Gonna Do in Clarksdale/Coahoma County this week? (more…)
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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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