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Photographer Michael Loyd Young is on a mission to document culture throughout the world, and he isn’t leaving his home state of Mississippi behind. The burgeoning artist recently debuted his first book “Blues, Booze, & BBQ,” a documentation of the blues culture in the Delta.
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Mississippi est un fantasme
pour tous ceux qui adorent
rouler à travers
la beauté du delta
américain en découvrant
les routes et les petits
villages pittoresques
où la musique
blues vibre.
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The Peabody it still
ain’t, but here’s
how the Shack Up Inn
keepers are putting a
little swank in their
shacks, inside The Cotton
Gin Inn on Hopson Plantation
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CLARKSDALE, Mississippi (CNN) -- Pat Davis was just 10 years old when two black men came into his father's barbecue joint in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in 1947. A huge fuss ensued, with four racists shouting every name in the book. Read More |
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It’s 3 p.m. on a Monday at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss., and students are trickling in for the Delta Blues Arts and Education Program. Read More |
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- Delta Blues Museum Students to be Featured
The Mississippi Valley State University Ninth Annual B.B. King Blues workshop is scheduled for Friday, June 5, beginning at 9 a.m. Read More |
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Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
It's only fitting, therefore, that Clarksdale should be the home of the Delta Blues Museum. It's located in the old Yazoo- Delta Railroad freight depot.
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Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Walker took first place at a competition sponsored by the Delta Blues Museum . "It's an opportunity of a lifetime," Bush says.
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Clarksdale Press Register - Clarksdale,MS,USA
By ANDY ROSS Those who showed up Tuesday evening at the Delta Blues Museum were in for a musical treat from one of the all-time blues harmonica greats.
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Boston, April 22, 2009 – PJ Walker, from Clarksdale, and Demetrius Williams, from Brookhaven, both 18, will spend five weeks this summer in Boston, studying at the prestigious Read More >> |
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It's always time for a road trip getaway, and a good road trip always needs music.
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The Delta Blues Museum welcomes the Mississippi Museums Association February 7-9, 2009
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www.theaustralian.news.com.au
We adjourn to the nearby Delta Blues Museum, which celebrates local luminaries such as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. A guy behind the counter, ...
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www.thestate.com
Has live blues most weekends. Delta Blues Museum: In Clarksdale’s restored train depot. Admission is $7. www.deltabluesmuseum.org Rock ‘n Roll and Blues ...
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www.sueddeutsche.de
Das klingende Schnapsdepot Im Mississippi-Delta ist der Blues zu ... sueddeutsche.de - München,Bayern,Germany Im ehemaligen Güterbahnhof von Clarksdale ist heute das Delta Blues Museum untergebracht, eine Ausstellung über Leben und Musik im Mississippi-Delta. ...
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www.al.com
I THOUGHT FOR SURE that the last time I saw blues great Willie "Pinetop" Perkins
would be the last time I'd ever see Willie "Pinetop" Perkins.
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marinij.com
I THOUGHT FOR SURE that the last time I saw blues great Willie "Pinetop" Perkins would be the last time I'd ever see Willie "Pinetop" Perkins.
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suntimes.com
The Mississippi Blues Trail is the most ambitious heritage marker project I've seen since the Illinois Department of Transportation put similar postings along Route 66.
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boston.com
The Delta vibe is upbeat as big names return and little Clarksdale experiences a comeback.
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pressregister.com
Today, the Delta Blues Museum will present the opening reception of Brandy
Kayzakian-Rowe's "The American Delta," featuring her paintings
and photography.
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www.al.com
Wade Walton's Barbershop, 317 Issaquena Ave. Known as the blues barber,
Wade Walton not only cut Howlin' Wolf and Ike Turner's hair, but recorded
the blues, too. His old shop currently operates as Big D's Blues Club....
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jambase.com
While there's no shortage of different ways to enjoy your eggs at breakfast,
for the patrons packed inside Sarah's Kitchen in Clarksdale early on the
morning of April 19, their eggs came with a raunchy good helpin' of greasy
blues, courtesy of the...
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stlblues.net
As a blues lover, tracing the roots of the blues has always drawn thousands
south to the Delta. The town of Clarksdale, Ms., the places such as Red's,
and the Hopson Plantation, all add up to create the 'true delta' flavor
you just can't read about, you have to...
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newsblaze.com
Each April, the United States celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM),
an opportunity to savor a major American contribution to world culture.
Initiated by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
History, JAM aims ...
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Expresslane
Cruise the legendary Blues Hightway into the heart of the Mississippi Delta,
where the blues were born and a few juke joints still jump on Saturday
night. ...
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Toledo
Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
In the late 1980s the trio helped raise $1 million for the Delta Blues
Museum in Clarksdale, Miss., and turned a piece of wood from Muddy Waters'
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BudgetTravel.com
The Civil War is a recent memory and blues legends loom large in the cotton
fields and swamp towns of the lower Mississippi Delta...
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