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The public is once again invited to choose a site to receive a grant
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The Pinetop Perkins Foundation is pleased to announce an inaugural event for musicians young and old. The “Piano Master Class” -- the inaugural event of the Youth Workshop Series -- will be held August 3, 2010 - August 4, 2010.
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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 More

Building up with Mississippi Blues
CNN's Tom Foreman explains how the Mississippi blues are cheering up an economically depressed region. Watch Video

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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pinetop Pinetop Perkins and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith photos and review
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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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mississippi slim

The Delta Blues Museum is saddened by the loss of Mississippi Slim
Mississippi Slim died this morning April 14th around 7 am at Delta Regional Medical Center(Greenville, MS) of natural causes.

- Amidst their success, ZZ Top launched a fundraising drive to create a Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss.
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Delta Blues Museum Gift Shop
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Traditional Blues Album:
A Stranger Here, Ramblin Jack Elliott
Contemporary Blues Album:
Already Free, The Derek Trucks Band
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
Beyonce', "At Last"
Pop Instrumental Album:
Potato Hole, Booker T. Jones
Traditional Gospel Album:
Oh Happy Day, Various Artists (includes Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, Al Green, Robert Randolph with mainstream artists)
Historical Album:
The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967), Little Walter.

Congratulations to both the winners and all the nominees.

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.

Click here to follow Son House to see the life and times of the legendary bluesman.

Muddy Waters Guitar
Made from a plank of wood from Muddy Waters' Cabin and used on tour by ZZ Top on view at the Delta Blues Museum

On view at the Delta Blues Museum

Museum Hours

Summer Hours
(March - October )
Monday - Saturday
9 AM - 5 PM

Winter Hours
(November - February)
Monday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM

Address
1 Blues Alley PO Box 459
Clarksdale, MS 38614

Phone
662-627-6820

The Great River Road Mississippi River Parkway Commission
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For more information on the Delta Blues Museum, including exhibits, collections and driving directions, Click Here to download our brochure.

Give my Poor Heart Ease
New Delta Blues Museum exhibit.
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The Delta Blues Museum's Web site, www.deltabluesmuseum.org, 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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Ike Turner and his Rocket 88 crew from Clarksdale who launched the world's first rock and roll record are being celebrated as musical icons this summer by the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival.
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