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ocicat Says: Our visit to the Delta Blues Museum was a delight! Beautiful photography, interesting displays of artifacts and the reconstructed home of Blues legend Muddy Waters made it a winner. Make sure you take the time to watch ALL of the movie they show inside Muddy Water’s cabin....
BuickMackane Says: The name of the place is pretty self-explanatory. There's a museum area filled with all sorts of fascinating interactive exhibits and a gift shop. We found the information provided to be very enlightening and instructive, and would recommend this to everyone visiting...
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Hicks: Mississippi Delta Tamales
ocicat Says: While researching for our Southern adventure, I checked out Road Food.Com to see what sort of ‘good eats’ I could find along the way. And that is how I came across the Southern Hot Tamale. Yes, you’ve read that correctly… a SOUTHERN tamale…known as a Delta tamale. No one is...
Madidi: High Style in a Down Home Place
ocicat Says: As part of our stay in Clarksdale, MS I made reservations at Madidi - the posh restaurant owned by actor Morgan Freeman. I’ll have to admit I had qualms as we walked to the door. Reviews I read ran either very positive or very negative… not much in-between. We went on a...
krizt Says: Madidi is a wonderful restaurant in Clarksdale Mississippi.They've got a variety to choose from. Lots of seafood and game. The walls of the restaurant are covered with art from local artists. The restrauant is the nicest in Clarksdale and is owned by Morgan Freeman and Bill...
Madidi: Madidi: Morgan Freeman's Place
BuickMackane Says: OK, we knew going in that this would be the most expensive part of our visit to Clarksdale, but we went anyway and had a very delicious meal indeed. We figured that the celebrity cachet of the actor (and Clarksdale-region native) Morgan Freeman would ensure the quality of...
Ground Zero Blues Club: Clarksdale Blues Scene
ocicat Says: There are a lot of blues clubs you can visit, the most famous is the “Ground Zero Blues Club” that is owned by Morgan Freeman. We made a short visit to it. I was looking for something with that "juke joint" feel that is so much a part of "the blues". I wasn’t very impressed....
Club 2000 Blues Club: Sunday afternoon jam session!
BuickMackane Says: Club 2000 was a very pleasant place to spend Sunday afternoon listening to a live impromptu blues jam session.Like most local juke joints, it was a rundown bar that looked like it hasn't changed its decor since New Year's Eve 1964 at best. It was patronized by a curious...
Delta Amusement Blues Cafe: They make breakfast, too!
BuickMackane Says: The Delta Amusement Blues Cafe is part of the laid-back small-town atmosphere in Clarksdale. At night while Nathalie slept in our apartment above Ground Zero Blues Club, I looked out the window and saw that the street below was packed with cars. Since all the businesses were...
Ground Zero Blues Bar: Blues Haven
krizt Says: Ground Zero Blues Bar is a great time. You will find a variety of people and excellent music. There are a couple of pool tables and a big dance floor. Everyone had a great time. Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett and I think one other guy owns Ground Zero and they are all seen...
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Although Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant recorded an album entitled "Walking into Clarksdale," you don't have to go to the Crossroads on foot. Clarksdale is located approximately 70 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee (in fact, that's what the postmark said on the many postcards we sent), which is a major hub for Northwest Airlines. Rent a car and drive down, because there's way too much to see and you can't do more than a few places on foot from Ground Zero. Although Greyhound will not drop you at the historic old bus station downtown, there is indeed regular service to Clarksdale which will bring you to "the strip" on State Street. There is also an old railroad station on Blues Alley, but at present there is only freight service through Clarksdale and no passenger rail. That's a shame because it would have been fun to tour the Delta by train, recalling the legendary musicians who hopped aboard boxcars so many years ago!
Updated Jan 24, 2005
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Delta Blues museum gift shop: Buying The Blues
ocicat Says: The museum has a fantastic little gift shop where you can pick up blues CDs at a great price. You can find recordings of the OLD traditional stuff too. There are also some T Shirts and posters available. Blues CDs. anywhere from $3 to $20.
Shack Up Inn gift shop: Local Art
ocicat Says: This shop features work by local artists. The mix is eccletic - from funky to traditional. This is the real stuff... not made somewhere overseas! Art by local artists. Blues CDs. Photos of blues musicians. Huge range of prices.
Get your car or cell phone fixed in Clarksdale!: A town with friendly, honest local merchants!
BuickMackane Says: We had car trouble while in Clarksdale. We were trying to find the nearby town of Moon Lake (where two excellent restaurants are supposedly located), but we hit something in the road and decided to turn back. The car sounded like 10 Harleys roaring and we feared we'd get...
We were warned by several people to not venture out of the tourist areas at night. With the low economic opportunities in Clarksdale, there is a problem with crime. As one local told us, "we are a small town with a big police force".
Written Aug 27, 2011
There IS one reason to visit the Tunica casinos
BuickMackane Says: About 45 miles north of Clarksdale and 10 miles north of the actual town of Tunica is the town of Robinsonville, where the so-called "Tunica" casinos are really located. Robinsonville is an old plantation town where Robert Johnson and other blues musicians once worked before...
Isle of Capri Casino -- at least the food's great!
BuickMackane Says: On Sunday morning, unless you're planning to hear gospel music at a church service (which, by the way, is highly recommended by the locals), there is absolutely nothing to do in Clarksdale. We woke up late and had no idea what to do with ourselves, so we took a road trip in...
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I created a separate page about our drive down to the town of Rosedale, Mississippi immortalized in lyrics by Robert Johnson (and covered powerfully by Led Zeppelin) in "Traveling Riverside Blues," as well as Cream's "Crossroads" in which Eric Clapton sings verses from both "Traveling Riverside Blues" and Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues."
We didn't stay long enough to do anything but snap a couple of pictures. Rosedale is about 30 miles south of Clarksdale, easily accessible by State Highway 1.
Updated Jan 20, 2005
BuickMackane Says: The Crossroads marker is actually located at the intersection of Desoto Avenue (US Route 49) and State Street, aka State Route 161 aka Business US Route 61 aka "The Strip." This is incredibly confusing when you first come into town, but eventually you'll come across this...
"Where the streets have cool names..."
BuickMackane Says: I'm paraphrasing U2 here, because the streets in Clarksdale have wonderfully evocative names like Blues Alley and John Lee Hooker Lane.Nathalie wants to be sure everyone notices that all the fire hydrants in Clarksdale are not the usual red, but an odd shade of faded pink....
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Clarksdale, MS: Blues for the Whole Family!
My daughter Nathalie and I have spent three wonderful vacations this year in Clarksdale, Mississippi -- "The Crossroads" you've heard about in songs by Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin....
My little sister told me of a place in Mississippi where you stay in shacks- This is the Shack Up Inn and it is the absolute best place that I have ever stayed!!! As soon as you walk in you feel like...
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