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the progress of the new Muddy Waters addition
while it is under construction. Be sure to check
back regularly for updates! Read
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February
15, 2012
Composer, poet,
pianist and vocalist Mose Allison will appear
in concert on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
at 7:30 p.m. in Jobe Hall on the Delta State
campus. The concert, titled “DSU Welcomes
Mose Allison Home,” is free and open to
the public. Read
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June
14, 2012
The Delta Blues Museum will be hosting a reception
for the Pinetop Perkins Foundation Master Class
Nine
scholarships for the 2012 Master Class Youth Workshops
in Guitar, Piano and Harmonica. Held in Clarksdale
Mississippi June 13-15th, 2012 and open to the young
and the young at heart, scholarships are available
to youth ages 12 to 21 nationwide.
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Red Paden, owner of Red’s Blues Club in Clarksdale, is honored
with the Blues Foundation’s prestigious ‘Keeping the Blues
Alive’ (KBA) award...
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Etta James, whose powerful, versatile and emotionally direct voice could enliven the raunchiest blues as well as the subtlest love songs, most indelibly in her signature hit, “At Last,” died on Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. She was 73.
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1939 - 2012
Monroe Jones, Jr., was born in Skene in 1939 and raised in the Delta. He became known as "Little Monroe," an expert B.B. King
stylist, after moving to Chicago... Read
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Hubert Sumlin,
the influential blues guitarist who made
his name as a sideman for Howlin' Wolf and
recently ranked 43rd on Rolling Stone's
list of history's top 100 axmen, died Sunday
(December 4, 2011) of heart failure. He
was 80.
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Please send your thoughts and your blessings to West Side vocalist Joanne Graham,
who worked a lot with the Steelers during their 1960s/'70s recording heyday and has been a club favorite in more
recent years. She recently suffered a stroke.
Chicago-based
vocalist Lee "Shot" Williams passed away
this last Friday (November 25, 2011).
A biographical sketch of his life is available
on the website "Soul Blues Music" (a.k.a.
"Blues Critic"). Read
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Show your support of the
Delta Blues Museum by purchasing a custom engraved
blues brick which will be used to complete the new
Muddy Waters Addition. Learn
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Blue Star Museums
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Just as New Orleans is inextricably linked with jazz, Clarksdale, Mississippi is ground zero for its soulful sister, the blues.
Here, deep in “the land where the blues began,” the Delta Blues Museum is dedicated to preserving and teaching this uniquely American musical form.
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In time for the 2011 Juke
Joint Festival in Clarksdale, the Delta Blues Museum
will release "From Clarksdale to Kansas City,
Vol. 1," the first CD featuring the museum's own student
band. Read
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“Ike Turner and Rocket 88,”
a new Museum exhibit, was unveiled during the
23rd Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival,
which featured special programs on the Clarksdale
native and the “first” rock ‘n’
roll record. Read
more
CNN's Tom Foreman
At the excellent
Delta Blues Museum here I walked around and
looked at their pictures, their guitars, and
more. Then I sat down and chatted with a regular
... Read
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CNN's
Tom Foreman explains how the Mississippi blues
are cheering up an economically depressed region.
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Video
The Huffington
Post
At the Delta Blues Museum, crowds are growing steadily
with people from every state and dozens of countries
flooding in to visit the historically rich region...
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You can find the Delta Blues Museum
in the "Blues Highway, Clarksdale, MS"
chapter of the publication "1,000 Places
to See Before You Die", by the author
Patricia Schultz.
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The remains of the cabin
from Stovall
Farms where Muddy Waters lived during his days as
a sharecropper and tractor driver are displayed
in the gallery.
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Click
here to see the
life and times of the legendary bluesman Muddy
Waters. |
Click
here to see the
life and times of the legendary bluesman Son
House.
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Click
here to see the life
and times of the legendary bluesman Charlie Musselwhite.
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Made from a plank of wood
from Muddy Waters' Cabin and used on tour by ZZ Top.
On view at the Delta Blues
Museum
(March - October )
Monday - Saturday
9 AM - 5 PM
(November - February)
Monday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
1 Blues Alley PO Box 459
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-627-6820
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The Great River Road Mississippi River
Parkway Commission
www.experiencemississippiriver.com
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 For
more information on the Delta Blues Museum, including
exhibits, collections and driving directions, Click
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| The Delta Blues Museum has become a partnered
place with the National Trust for Historic Preservation
headquartered in Washington DC.
www.preservationnation.org |
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DBM Band CD "From Clarksdale to Kansas City,
Vol. 1". Order your copy today of the Museum's
own student band CD featuring artists such as Charlie
Musselwhite and more!
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Probably
the one myth about the blues that every blues fan
knows the place where bluesmen supposedly sold their
sold to the Devil to play well. Highways 61 and
49 cross again on our tees.
See
Gift Shop
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Mark your calendars for the upcoming
ceremony dates along both the Mississippi
Blues Trail and Mississippi Country
Music Trail.
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Blues, Booze, & BBQ