Interesting day yesterday during the main festival. The daylight outdoor portion was going great until about midway through the day. Then, the power went out in the majority of the town. Took about 3 hours to restore causing plenty of performers to have their shows cancelled. One place was able to get a generator going and have about 2 hours of music. It was also a big disappointment for the vendors too who could not accept credit cards that needed electricity to process. Fortunately, the evening shows went on as planned.
The Hoodoo Men...2 piece band with a guitar player and drummer who both also played harp while playing their main instrument. They performed on a small stage in front of what formerly was Wade Walton's barber shop. Wade cut the hair of some famous blues musicians back in the day when they lived or came through Clarksdale.
Cadillac John performing on his 91st birthday inside a garage in the outdoor portion of a garden center.
Monkeys riding dog put on a short performance herding sheep. I was able to watch this during the power outage.
I also caught the pig races during the power outage.
I spent the evening at Ground Zero which is owned by Morgan Freeman, a local lawyer/former mayor, and a family member of Stovall Farms where Muddy Waters grew up and was a tractor driver before he moved to Chicago. My wife and mother-in-law volunteer working the door selling wristbands for entrance.
Three acts performed there last night. The opener was a band fronted by a guitar player who played and wrote with Ted Nugent for 30+ years. The band performed "Strangehold". The headliner was Super Chikan who played the most famous song of the day, "Rock Me Baby", which I heard 3-4 time performed by other artists yesterday.
Boy, I remember 20+ years ago when you could have a $300 35mm camera with a $200+ lense and you couldn't take picture as good as you can with a cell phone nowadays.
Good time so far and I am glad I went. Now to decide if I go to any of the shows today (Sunday).