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Delta Blues Museum
Muddy Waters Addition

New Photos Added - SNOW!
Follow the progress of the new Muddy Waters addition while it is under construction. Be sure to check back regularly for updates! Read More

Jazz Great Mose Allison in Concert
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 More

Master Class Reception
June 14, 2012
The Delta Blues Museum will be hosting a reception for the Pinetop Perkins Foundation Master Class
Pinetop Perkins Foundation Scholarships Now Available
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. Read More

Red Paden Honored with
Top Blues Award

Red Paden, owner of Red’s Blues Club in Clarksdale, is honored with the Blues Foundation’s prestigious ‘Keeping the Blues Alive’ (KBA) award... Read More
Etta James - RIP
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. Read More
Monroe Jones, Jr - RIP
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 More

Hubert Sumlin - RIP
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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Joanne Graham
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.
Lee "Shot" Williams - RIP
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 More
Custom Engraved Blues Bricks
Order Yours Today!

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 More
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What's on View at the
Delta Blues Museum

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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DBM Band CD Release
"From Clarksdale to Kansas City"

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 More
Mississippi Blues Marker Trail Schedule of Events
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


Letter to the President #545: “Building up the Blues”
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
1,000 Places To See Before You Die
 


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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'Delta Blues' Brings Tourists To An Economically Depressed South
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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Muddy Waters Cabin from
Stovall Farms



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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Follow Muddy
Click here to see the life and times of the legendary bluesman Muddy Waters.

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

Follow Charlie Musselwhite
Click here to see the life and times of the legendary bluesman Charlie Musselwhite.

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

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

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

Partner Place National Trust for
Historic Preservation

The Delta Blues Museum has become a partnered place with the National Trust for Historic Preservation headquartered in Washington DC. www.preservationnation.org

Other Regional Museums
We've put together a list of music museums and others outside of Clarksdale that you may want to add to your itinerary as you plan your visit to Clarksdale. See Them Now!

Son House Retrospective
Delta Blues Museum exhibit opened
June, 2011 Read More

Give my Poor Heart Ease
Delta Blues Museum exhibit opened November, 2010 Read More
Ike Turner & Rocket 88
Delta Blues Museum exhibit opened
August, 2010 Read More

New in the Gift Shop • 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!

Crossroads tees
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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Delta Blues Museum Gift Shop
Great Blues - Shop Online!

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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Museum Hours
1 Blues Alley - Clarksdale, MS 38614 - 662-627-6820
Current Hours - Monday thru Saturday - 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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