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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 (Dec. 4) 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").
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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
Blog
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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Mark your calendars for the upcoming ceremony
dates along both the Mississippi Blues
Trail and Mississippi Country Music Trail.
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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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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 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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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. Musicologist Alan Lomax
recorded Muddy on the front porch of this shack for the
Library of Congress in 1940....
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Click
here to see the life
and times of the legendary bluesman Muddy Waters.
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Click
here to see the life
and times of the legendary bluesman Son House. |
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
Here to download our brochure. |
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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 |
Delta Blues Museum exhibit opened
June, 2011 Read
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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.
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Gift Shop
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was
awarded a "gold" certification in the Corporate
Design, small budget, multimedia category, by the
Southeastern Museums Conference at their annual meeting,
held in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Blues, Booze, & BBQ