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The museum is located in the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Passenger Depot, also known as Illinois Central Passenger Depot or Clarksdale Passenger Depot, which was built in 1926 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Ground Zero is a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, US that is co-owned by Morgan Freeman, Memphis entertainment executive Howard Stovall, and businessman Eric Meier. [1] Attorney Bill Luckett was also co-owner until his death in 2021. [2] It got its name from Clarksdale being historically referred to as "Ground Zero" for the blues.
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) [1] is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. [2] Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, as he is the last blues musician to play the Bentonia School .
The Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival is an annual music festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi.It is held the second weekend in August, lasting three days. [1] Created as the Sunflower Riverbank Blues Festival in 1988, the festival features veteran and homegrown performers, attracting blues enthusiast from all over the world.
Blues music can't be explained in just a few words. It's a way of life and it comes from the heart. These 25 songs show the breadth and depth of the genre.
Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. [2] It is located along the Sunflower River.Clarksdale is named after John Clark, a settler who founded the city in the mid-19th century when he established a timber mill and business.
After visiting all 50 US states, I've fallen in love with stunning national parks, big cities, and rugged coastlines.
Blues Trail marker in Hernando, Mississippi. The Mississippi Blues Trail was created by the Mississippi Blues Commission in 2006 to place interpretive markers at the most notable historical sites related to the birth, growth, and influence of the blues throughout (and in some cases beyond) the state of Mississippi.