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Juke Joint Festival - Clarksdale, MS
Bar-B-Lew:
Got into town early evening and got to see some live blues.
An outdoor stage ;D
The guy that owns the Mississippi saxophone (aka harmonica) store performing with a 3 string homemade cigar box guitar and an electrified harmonica at the same time.
Red's Lounge probably the most famous juke joint in Clarksdale, MS
Bentley:
So do they serve Shine?
Bar-B-Lew:
--- Quote from: Bentley on April 14, 2018, 10:38:19 AM ---So do they serve Shine?
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I didn't look for or see any. It is in the downtown section of town. If it was out in the farm areas like back in the 40's-50's then I would have expected some.
triplebq:
--- Quote from: Bar-B-Lew on April 07, 2018, 09:07:45 PM ---http://www.jukejointfestival.com/
I decided yesterday to cash in some frequent flyer miles from all of the work travel I have been doing, and going to meet up with my wife to go to this festival. It is in her hometown, and she is already down there with her Mother for the last week. Probably not many artists that you have heard of unless you are deep into modern Mississippi blues. Supposed to draw people from all over the world to this festival. Will be interesting to see what it is like.
For those who do not know what a juke joint is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juke_joint.
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Oh this would be so fun to attend.
Bar-B-Lew:
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).
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