indigo
369 posts
May 10, 2017
8:46 PM
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In late July the wife and i are flying over to San Francisco to visit our son(he married an American girl)
So we are taking the opportunity to visit New Orleans for a few days and then do a drive up from N/O to Memphis(via Natchez) which means that there will time to stop over in Clarksdale for 2 nights.Trouble is it will be a Monday and Tuesday night.
Question is,do you think there will there be any live music on those nights?Any recommendations about where to stay in Clarksdale.?
TIA
Rick
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Cotton
89 posts
May 11, 2017
7:39 AM
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Stay at "Shack up Inn" a converted Cotton Gin and Sharecropper shacks as motel rooms. Music right next door at Hopsons Commissary on Monday night. Info on weekly music and venues here https://www.cathead.biz/
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Honkin On Bobo
1408 posts
May 11, 2017
12:05 PM
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Don't drink the water.
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jbone
2289 posts
May 11, 2017
2:43 PM
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Look up Cat Head blues store and Roger Stolle. He usually has a calendar going week to week. Really nice guy and informative about Cdale.
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Sundancer
104 posts
May 11, 2017
3:08 PM
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Hey Indigo - a trip that includes SF, NO and Clarksdale will give ya a very comprehensive view of 21st century America. SF with its charm, wealth & traffic jams will remind you of Auckland. NO Is a dichotomy of great food & music juxtaposed against the formerly wonderful Bourbon Street which is now Phuket-esque after Katrina. And while you'll enjoy the daytime vibe & Deak's shop & a few fun clubs in Clarksdale, you really ought to drive around the town a bit - in the daylight. You'll see poverty on a scale most folks don't want to know about.
But while you're there you can also take short trip to Tutwiler and see
- the train platform from which WC Handy made his famous quote about the blues
- the funeral home where Emit Till's body was taken after it was dredged out of the Mississippi.
- and Sonny Boy II's headstone.
Travel safe.
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indigo
370 posts
May 11, 2017
3:14 PM
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Thanks guys,great info.This trip is like a pilgrimage to me as a long time blues(and americana)fan.
@Honkin don't worry the only water i will be drinking will be Hop flavoured.;-)
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pharpo
804 posts
May 11, 2017
7:53 PM
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You have to stop in and see Deak Harp. He has shop at 13 Third St. Great guy ! Check out the "Bluesberry Cafe" and look up Billy Howell and the Delta Bohemian
Tour. Great way to learn - and see the history and the landscape of the Mississippi Delta.
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