I know this guy that was raised OK. He came from a upper class christian family he has a real problem with his identity. Every cool band such as Verbena he literally copied in Every way you can think of.He moved down therein clarks to imitate. This doushe bag ended up making a baby with a bass player chicken. He is really gonna know the blues now that he has a child. he aint in the muse now; he is in parental pelican bay. He has never held down a job and has no degree. Lack of respect huh.
Been to Clarksdale twice now and am ready to go again. Razorblade was there both times and he was sensational. Big George Brock helped me celebrate my 60th b'day. My husband is a drummer and always gets choked up in the Blues Museum seeing all that history.
The museum and blues are one thing.But Clarksdale is a slum with a facade of something hip slick and cool.Why do you think so many blues greats left there?
I visited the DBM this past summer. I was very impressed with the quality and quantity of the exhibits. The Muddy Waters display was outstanding as well as the many different artifacts, guitars, costumes, etc. I wish I had been able to spend more time there but was on a tight schedule. A big thank you to everyone who is involved in operating and maintaining the museum.
Clarksdale has really gone down since i lived in the area (Cleveland) in the 50s and 60s. I hope to one day see it come back. I heard that the blues Museum is about to be renovated. People disagree about the exact location of the birth of the blues. I just say, it was mostly in that area from Cleveland, Ruleville, Clarksdale. It would be more realistic to say Quitman, Bolivar and sunflower counties. Because most of the blues and soul singers including Sam Cooke, came from those areas.
i was in clarksdale, MS two years ago. And was quite prepared for the extreme poverty that i found driving to the museum. I was a bit apprehensive, not really sure what we were getting into. Lot of the town was pretty run down, but i guess it adds to the experience of the blues. I visited the musuem , and was pretty disappointed. IT was a musuem more for the urban chicago blues guys, and not so much on the traditional old time players like charley patton. but nonetheless, it was pretty cool.
Let me tell ya I love the blue, coming from Nova Scotia Canada ; Blues is awesome its REAL, Its a feeling one has............Keep up the great work on the video's, I would love to be able to buy a complete copy of DVD of this. let me know.
We have someone who gives guided tours during our festivals - usually during Juke Joint Festival in April - and I'm sure he'd be happy to give private guided tours any time . It's so interesting to me to hear the comments of the people who find Clarksdale disappointing. I guess that's why Morgan Freeman is here so often and Robert Plant visits frequently and Paul Simon has been here several times. Perhaps those guys know what they are seeing when they see it. Because they keep coming back :)
honestly, a little dissapointed with the museum. i expected there to be exhibits about booker white and skip james, and really wanted to see blues history. instead you get a bunch of guitars, atricles of clothing, etc, with mini-bios about some of the artists. the muddy waters house with the movie was OK, but the museum seems overhyped to me. thought thered be more i guess.
i tottally agree. I had the same feeling, they had like a dinky guitar signed by Jlee Hooker, and i was like, are we at the hard rock cafe or something? then they had an exhbit of photos taken on Clarksdale MS High School students, to have nothing to do with the blues. There was no exhibit on the traditonal delta guys like skip james, charley patton, and etc. It was more focused on the Chicago Urban players, and that really disappointed me.
@AgentCarter Yea the one in Memphis is bigger but Majority of Memphins are either from Mississippi or Parents are from Mississippi. I'm from Memphis both of my Parents are from Mississippi. I was raised in Both. Outside of Memphis I really dont care about Tennessee, but the crooked letter I love Mississippi to the heart believe that. I know that state to the bone
@Digadog81 um, did i ever say otherwise? im well aware of the fact that memphis blues and soul musicians usually came from mississippi. i was simply saying that the rock and soul museum was an example of how the blues museum in clarksdale should be. the history of soul starts off the same as blues, in rural mississippi. the rock and soul museum had great exhibits about that, the clasrksdale museum did not.
@wmingpt this is an economically socially depressing shithole...if I had somebody to hook me up with a job somewhere...I'd be outta here faster than lightening could strike...hell, I might not even pack shyt!!lol
@Machelle3200 yup, i was pretty aprehensive driving into the downtown. people were walking around like zombies, trying to sell me drugs. it's a ghetto for sure. not to be judegmental, but if you are promoting a tourist site, at least make it a little safer.
If you love the blues, just go to Clarksdale. You can find this flat country very sad & the town ruined. But, it smells blues at every corner. Clarksdale is the blues, despite of the dozen of crossroads..!
thats all well and good, but the museum lacks "the blues", or at least any info on its history, origins, etc. or even any samples of music. by reading the webiste youd think it was like the country music hall of fame in nashville or something. in reality, its nothing like that. i guess in a way it makes sense for it to be the way it is thougjh, as clraksdale is no nashville
Yeah, been into the Blues my whole life. Been hearing about Clarksdale about as long. I was stationed at Fort Polk about 5-6 hours away. Figured I better make the pilgrimage while I could. I wasn't disappointed. Excellent Blues band called Delta Highway from Memphis was playing at Ground Zero. I'd love to go back to Clarksdale but I'll probly never be in that neck of the woods again.
I spent 3 days in Clarksdale over Thanksgiving, 2008. Drove 5 hours to get there from Louisiana. If you're into the Blues, It's a pilgrimage you have to make. Ground Zero Blues Club, Reds, Hicks Barbecue and all that Blues history is right there. I felt right at home just walking down the street. There really are juke joints still around in the 21st century! It's not a bustling tourist trap. It really is the home of the Blues.
Spot on brother. What a place...I spent 3 nights over the weekend there in January of all times, and theres still plenty of places for music and fucken REAL.
You don't want it too nice..thats the whole appeal to the place.
I spent a week in Clarksdale at the Hopson Plantation in July, 2009, and LOVED it! I met Daddy Rich in Morgan Freeman's restaurant "Madidi". The whole area buzzes with soulful blues and great musicians, and I can't wait to go back!
See my separate comments below. In addition I would say that the comment below from "AlabamaCSA" about guided tours around the town, as part of the Museum entry is a really good idea. The town has so much musical history. A short mini bus ride to The Crossroads, The Shack Up Inn at Hopsons Farm, Muddy Waters home, Reds, Ground Zero etc etc can only be good for business. Its a long way from the UK but I hope I'll be back someday.
What a great documentary. I live in the UK & have sung in bands for over 25 years. In 2008 I was lucky enough to visit the "deep south". I loved Clarksdale. It felt real! I thought the Delta Blues Museum was great, totally in keeping with the rest of the place. I see here that it is to be renovated. Please don't make it too shiny. The Blues ain't meant to be shiny! That same night I got to to sing on stage at Ground Zero Blues Bar with Big T & The Family Blues Band. What a thrill! Peace Y'all
Clarksdale is a pretty gritty place... The museum was not much when I visited this past summer... There really should be a better museum. Don't get me wrong, it was interesting, but a bit rag-tag.
I'm glad you visited Clarksdale. Sorry it wasn't quite up to par for you. We are currently undergoing a 1-2 million dollar Renovation at The Delta Blues Museum, so give us another shot in the future. Thanks, have a good day!
Thank You Friend, Okay, I'll come back again then... Maybe you could consider giving tours around town as part of the future of the museum, it might help things to grow... and it might put some life into the community of Clarksdale. The musuem looked great from the outside.
I agree, no need to commercialize everything and diminish the spirit of a place that way. But when I went, I really wasn't too sure where to go and what to see except for my guidebooks and foreknowledge...
In answer to the ones visiting Clarksdale, I was born in Helena, AR across the river from Clarksdale, It may not have all of the sparkle of more well known places, But Clarksdale and Helena have a (feeling) You have to feel it in your soul, appreciate all the ones that have made the blues what it is, When you grow up on the river, and lived there, it always stays with you. It is very hard to explain You have to "feel" the blues.....Helena, AR also has a great museum, Delta Cultural Center etc.
@AlabamaCSA Trust..this is a shithole that you do not want to get stuck in..if you don't have much family somewhere else..you're phucked...like me........
@AlabamaCSA a rag tag life is what the blues is all about. think of the circumstances those people had to live then and very often still have to ...........
@JandritoBlues I thought that a lot of the Blues guys deserve a better remembrance. I completely dont like when something becomes too commercialized because it destroys the soul entirely.. but at the same time I felt kinda bad for Clarksdale and thought that the folks living there now could help to keep the memory of the blues alive in that haunting region...
this is real music.. there is revolution and feeling unlike the weak cookie cutter music of today.. hip pop is pathetic! the hip hop of the 80s and early 90s had meaning!
I do know when I'm dealing with something special and pre-war country blues is just that. You're right about hip-hop being a shadow of a much deeper well. A huge part of what is most interesting and vital in American music can trace its origins back to the musicians associated with Dockery's farm in the late 20s, early 30s.
Blues as a musical form is still similar then and now, but the originality, talent and beautiful strangeness of that earlier generation was unique. Or am I wrong?
you apparently don't know when you are dealing with something extra special. No music, touch your inter soul like this! Hip-hop is just a shadow of a deeper well!
yeah its a historic town when you think about it, i live here and see it everyday so i admit you do tend to lose interest or take it for granted the ability to see rolling cotton fields or blues shows anytime you please but it's a good town.
I know this guy that was raised OK. He came from a upper class christian family he has a real problem with his identity. Every cool band such as Verbena he literally copied in Every way you can think of.He moved down therein clarks to imitate. This doushe bag ended up making a baby with a bass player chicken. He is really gonna know the blues now that he has a child. he aint in the muse now; he is in parental pelican bay. He has never held down a job and has no degree. Lack of respect huh.
killkill120 1 month ago
Glad to be born and raised in Mississippi knowing great blues music came from here.
ddbarnes11 7 months ago
Been to Clarksdale twice now and am ready to go again. Razorblade was there both times and he was sensational. Big George Brock helped me celebrate my 60th b'day. My husband is a drummer and always gets choked up in the Blues Museum seeing all that history.
lindacoover 9 months ago
I saw Razorblade Last Night at Ground Zero!!!
He is still phenomenal!
luvthatzeppelin 10 months ago
The museum and blues are one thing.But Clarksdale is a slum with a facade of something hip slick and cool.Why do you think so many blues greats left there?
andy131481 11 months ago
I love the the, history as well as now and what it is going to be, America's museum of music.....Wsir
udongo106 11 months ago
robert johnson in the begening
corpralkirsch 11 months ago
Thanks for featuring the best version of JLHs Boom Boom
busessuck1 1 year ago
I got a tee shirt from Red's It says "Fronted by the River Backed by the Grave"
Once you get the Clarksdale Blues in your blood you will never forget it. I made some good friends there.
OldNeo 1 year ago
Do people really need to have the blues explained to them?
itsjimmywithjimmy 1 year ago 3
@itsjimmywithjimmy Hehe, at the time you typed this you were actually the rightest person in the world
busessuck1 1 year ago
Clarksdale, Mississippi!! My hometown!!!
hazelman 1 year ago
I visited the DBM this past summer. I was very impressed with the quality and quantity of the exhibits. The Muddy Waters display was outstanding as well as the many different artifacts, guitars, costumes, etc. I wish I had been able to spend more time there but was on a tight schedule. A big thank you to everyone who is involved in operating and maintaining the museum.
SLBlues 1 year ago
Clarksdale has really gone down since i lived in the area (Cleveland) in the 50s and 60s. I hope to one day see it come back. I heard that the blues Museum is about to be renovated. People disagree about the exact location of the birth of the blues. I just say, it was mostly in that area from Cleveland, Ruleville, Clarksdale. It would be more realistic to say Quitman, Bolivar and sunflower counties. Because most of the blues and soul singers including Sam Cooke, came from those areas.
replyform 1 year ago
i was in clarksdale, MS two years ago. And was quite prepared for the extreme poverty that i found driving to the museum. I was a bit apprehensive, not really sure what we were getting into. Lot of the town was pretty run down, but i guess it adds to the experience of the blues. I visited the musuem , and was pretty disappointed. IT was a musuem more for the urban chicago blues guys, and not so much on the traditional old time players like charley patton. but nonetheless, it was pretty cool.
inikokir 1 year ago
Let me tell ya I love the blue, coming from Nova Scotia Canada ; Blues is awesome its REAL, Its a feeling one has............Keep up the great work on the video's, I would love to be able to buy a complete copy of DVD of this. let me know.
Much Respect.
Patrick Ryan
Nova Scotia Canada
NinjaMaster25 1 year ago
We have someone who gives guided tours during our festivals - usually during Juke Joint Festival in April - and I'm sure he'd be happy to give private guided tours any time . It's so interesting to me to hear the comments of the people who find Clarksdale disappointing. I guess that's why Morgan Freeman is here so often and Robert Plant visits frequently and Paul Simon has been here several times. Perhaps those guys know what they are seeing when they see it. Because they keep coming back :)
prinni2 1 year ago
honestly, a little dissapointed with the museum. i expected there to be exhibits about booker white and skip james, and really wanted to see blues history. instead you get a bunch of guitars, atricles of clothing, etc, with mini-bios about some of the artists. the muddy waters house with the movie was OK, but the museum seems overhyped to me. thought thered be more i guess.
AgentCarter 1 year ago
@AgentCarter
i tottally agree. I had the same feeling, they had like a dinky guitar signed by Jlee Hooker, and i was like, are we at the hard rock cafe or something? then they had an exhbit of photos taken on Clarksdale MS High School students, to have nothing to do with the blues. There was no exhibit on the traditonal delta guys like skip james, charley patton, and etc. It was more focused on the Chicago Urban players, and that really disappointed me.
inikokir 1 year ago
@inikokir yea it was disappointing. maybe someday it can be better, but i doubt there is any funding of it.
i later went to the rock and soul museum in memphis,. and they had more blues history there than in clarksdale.
AgentCarter 1 year ago
@AgentCarter Yea the one in Memphis is bigger but Majority of Memphins are either from Mississippi or Parents are from Mississippi. I'm from Memphis both of my Parents are from Mississippi. I was raised in Both. Outside of Memphis I really dont care about Tennessee, but the crooked letter I love Mississippi to the heart believe that. I know that state to the bone
Digadog81 1 year ago
@Digadog81 um, did i ever say otherwise? im well aware of the fact that memphis blues and soul musicians usually came from mississippi. i was simply saying that the rock and soul museum was an example of how the blues museum in clarksdale should be. the history of soul starts off the same as blues, in rural mississippi. the rock and soul museum had great exhibits about that, the clasrksdale museum did not.
AgentCarter 1 year ago
Clarksdale used to be a great place, but changes our forefathers predicted have come true.
wmingpt 1 year ago
@wmingpt this is an economically socially depressing shithole...if I had somebody to hook me up with a job somewhere...I'd be outta here faster than lightening could strike...hell, I might not even pack shyt!!lol
Machelle3200 1 year ago
@Machelle3200 yup, i was pretty aprehensive driving into the downtown. people were walking around like zombies, trying to sell me drugs. it's a ghetto for sure. not to be judegmental, but if you are promoting a tourist site, at least make it a little safer.
inikokir 1 year ago
Anybody from Shaw? Mid Atlantic
deltadude61 1 year ago
Ain't no blues like the Mississippi delta blues.
DammitDrag 1 year ago
If you love the blues, just go to Clarksdale. You can find this flat country very sad & the town ruined. But, it smells blues at every corner. Clarksdale is the blues, despite of the dozen of crossroads..!
2quundar 1 year ago
iam a missisippi boy from como we all around here got those feeling of the blues its a part of us!!! miss you r.l.
1geared4hp 1 year ago
thats all well and good, but the museum lacks "the blues", or at least any info on its history, origins, etc. or even any samples of music. by reading the webiste youd think it was like the country music hall of fame in nashville or something. in reality, its nothing like that. i guess in a way it makes sense for it to be the way it is thougjh, as clraksdale is no nashville
AgentCarter 1 year ago
Yeah, been into the Blues my whole life. Been hearing about Clarksdale about as long. I was stationed at Fort Polk about 5-6 hours away. Figured I better make the pilgrimage while I could. I wasn't disappointed. Excellent Blues band called Delta Highway from Memphis was playing at Ground Zero. I'd love to go back to Clarksdale but I'll probly never be in that neck of the woods again.
scout005 1 year ago 5
I spent 3 days in Clarksdale over Thanksgiving, 2008. Drove 5 hours to get there from Louisiana. If you're into the Blues, It's a pilgrimage you have to make. Ground Zero Blues Club, Reds, Hicks Barbecue and all that Blues history is right there. I felt right at home just walking down the street. There really are juke joints still around in the 21st century! It's not a bustling tourist trap. It really is the home of the Blues.
scout005 1 year ago 2
Spot on brother. What a place...I spent 3 nights over the weekend there in January of all times, and theres still plenty of places for music and fucken REAL.
You don't want it too nice..thats the whole appeal to the place.
Brilliant memories for me.
sayerma 1 year ago
I spent a weekend in Clarksdale and loved it.
FoothillsofWyoming 2 years ago
I spent a week in Clarksdale at the Hopson Plantation in July, 2009, and LOVED it! I met Daddy Rich in Morgan Freeman's restaurant "Madidi". The whole area buzzes with soulful blues and great musicians, and I can't wait to go back!
2009Bassist 2 years ago
good thanks for the lesson
staticviewer 2 years ago
i play bass with the delta blues museum
TheIngram3 2 years ago
See my separate comments below. In addition I would say that the comment below from "AlabamaCSA" about guided tours around the town, as part of the Museum entry is a really good idea. The town has so much musical history. A short mini bus ride to The Crossroads, The Shack Up Inn at Hopsons Farm, Muddy Waters home, Reds, Ground Zero etc etc can only be good for business. Its a long way from the UK but I hope I'll be back someday.
travelingwilbury1 2 years ago
What a great documentary. I live in the UK & have sung in bands for over 25 years. In 2008 I was lucky enough to visit the "deep south". I loved Clarksdale. It felt real! I thought the Delta Blues Museum was great, totally in keeping with the rest of the place. I see here that it is to be renovated. Please don't make it too shiny. The Blues ain't meant to be shiny! That same night I got to to sing on stage at Ground Zero Blues Bar with Big T & The Family Blues Band. What a thrill! Peace Y'all
travelingwilbury1 2 years ago
@travelingwilbury1 "Please don't make it too shiny. " I totally agree! Let's met at Red's, Wilbur! Lou
2quundar 1 year ago
This is Great
travelingwilbury1 2 years ago
Clarksdale is a pretty gritty place... The museum was not much when I visited this past summer... There really should be a better museum. Don't get me wrong, it was interesting, but a bit rag-tag.
AlabamaCSA 2 years ago 3
Howdy,
I'm glad you visited Clarksdale. Sorry it wasn't quite up to par for you. We are currently undergoing a 1-2 million dollar Renovation at The Delta Blues Museum, so give us another shot in the future. Thanks, have a good day!
-$DR$
daddyrichispoor 2 years ago 6
Thank You Friend, Okay, I'll come back again then... Maybe you could consider giving tours around town as part of the future of the museum, it might help things to grow... and it might put some life into the community of Clarksdale. The musuem looked great from the outside.
AlabamaCSA 2 years ago
Don't make it too slick ! ; )
NorthTulsaBoy 2 years ago
I agree, no need to commercialize everything and diminish the spirit of a place that way. But when I went, I really wasn't too sure where to go and what to see except for my guidebooks and foreknowledge...
AlabamaCSA 2 years ago
In answer to the ones visiting Clarksdale, I was born in Helena, AR across the river from Clarksdale, It may not have all of the sparkle of more well known places, But Clarksdale and Helena have a (feeling) You have to feel it in your soul, appreciate all the ones that have made the blues what it is, When you grow up on the river, and lived there, it always stays with you. It is very hard to explain You have to "feel" the blues.....Helena, AR also has a great museum, Delta Cultural Center etc.
sallyfreebird 1 year ago
@AlabamaCSA Trust..this is a shithole that you do not want to get stuck in..if you don't have much family somewhere else..you're phucked...like me........
Machelle3200 1 year ago
@AlabamaCSA Blues is preserved in the heart and soul orally.
No poncy museum could ever do it
But whats needed is a carefully protected and backed up archive
zezt 1 year ago
@AlabamaCSA a rag tag life is what the blues is all about. think of the circumstances those people had to live then and very often still have to ...........
noweedman 1 year ago
@AlabamaCSA
I was there in 2004 and it was pretty weak at that time. I think they need funding.
lordkoos 1 year ago
I have to disagree. It was quite a place to visit. I plan to visit again next time I visit Clarksdale in the near future.
crazydiamondbob1963 1 year ago
@AlabamaCSA Blues Museum too gritty for you?
JandritoBlues 3 days ago
@JandritoBlues I thought that a lot of the Blues guys deserve a better remembrance. I completely dont like when something becomes too commercialized because it destroys the soul entirely.. but at the same time I felt kinda bad for Clarksdale and thought that the folks living there now could help to keep the memory of the blues alive in that haunting region...
AlabamaCSA 2 days ago
THIS IS THE BLUES !
MississippiDann 2 years ago 2
this is real music.. there is revolution and feeling unlike the weak cookie cutter music of today.. hip pop is pathetic! the hip hop of the 80s and early 90s had meaning!
analogrevolutionary 2 years ago 2
I do know when I'm dealing with something special and pre-war country blues is just that. You're right about hip-hop being a shadow of a much deeper well. A huge part of what is most interesting and vital in American music can trace its origins back to the musicians associated with Dockery's farm in the late 20s, early 30s.
Blues as a musical form is still similar then and now, but the originality, talent and beautiful strangeness of that earlier generation was unique. Or am I wrong?
CroatAndNettles 2 years ago
Blues music: the medicine for the people's soul
ECDSD2000 2 years ago 2
i love mississippi. i wish more 14 year olds lover this stuff....
TheFamousWaffle 2 years ago 2
I can dig this, aint no shame to love the blues music
wisesatyr72 3 years ago 2
Just how many universes lie between modern-day Clarksdale and Dockerys? There's no going back...
CroatAndNettles 3 years ago
Have you been there lately? It may not be quite as far as you'd think.
bootlegpreacher 3 years ago
you apparently don't know when you are dealing with something extra special. No music, touch your inter soul like this! Hip-hop is just a shadow of a deeper well!
MasterStreetTeacher 2 years ago
i love the blues, i visit ground zero ans love it
trillman123 3 years ago
yeah its a historic town when you think about it, i live here and see it everyday so i admit you do tend to lose interest or take it for granted the ability to see rolling cotton fields or blues shows anytime you please but it's a good town.
foxylilmimi 3 years ago
An Amazing account of what the blues really is - loved it!
zucchdog 3 years ago 2