Blues Tourist.

Some photos from the road and the King Biscuit Blues Festival, October 4-7, 2017.

Dockery

Dockery, MS

Drew, MS

Coffindaffer crosses outside Tutwiler, MS

Parchman

Hopson

Vince Johnson, Main Stage

Blues jam

Akeem Kemp

Akeem Kemp

Akeem Kemp

Ready Boyz

My parents in Stovall, MS

 

 

What the hell: Clarksdale Pt. 2 in photos

Google Maps directs me to the crossroads. You know, sell your soul, etc.

Those 3 guitars behind the Abe’s sign = crossroads.

New Roxy on Issaquena Ave

Paramount on Yazoo Ave

Just purty.

Wade Walton’s Barbershop/BBQ/blues club.

Preston Rumbaugh & Henry Swain Club at Cathead. This bass player was especially fun to listen to.

I couldn’t find much about this now-vacant store, but the Kerstine family records would be fun to comb through (http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/kerstine.htm).

Delta Ave

Griot Arts on Sunflower Ave

Robert “Bilbo” Walker, blues legend.

Along Yazoo Ave.

I briefly talked to the gentleman taking the photo here and his bandmate behind him. They said to come to a club which I couldn’t find; if you know who these guys are, lemme know!

Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, the best acoustic blues player ever, and a real funny guy to boot (and Bilbo in the background).

Leo “Bud” Welch and Big Jon Short at the Delta Blues Museum

Cathead stage, not sure who’s in this band.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram absolutely shredding at the Delta Furniture Stage on Issaqueena Ave.

Meat box.

Sunset.