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Clarksdale, Mississippi


Clarksdale, Mississippi Juke Joint, November 1939

Morgan Freeman's
Ground Zero Blues Club
Presents

5/2/8
Bill Abel Blues Band

5/3/8
Kenny Brown Blues Band

Fri 05/09/08
"Delta Groove All Star Blues Revue"
Juke Joint Duo
Big Pete Pearson
Bill Sims Jr
Bob Corritore
Bobby Jones
Candye Kane
Dave Riley
Debbie Davies Band
Finis Tasby
Frank Goldwasser
Jackie Payne & Steve Edmundson
Jason Ricci & New Blood
Jim Hanft
Kid Ramos
Kirk Fletcher
Lionel Young
Los Fabulocos
Lynwood Slim
Marco Pandolfi
Mark Lavoie
Mike Zito
Mikey Jr.
Phillip Walker
Randy Chortkoff
Richard Innes
Ronnie James Weber
Teresa James
The Insomniacs
The Mannish Boys
The Soul of John Black
Tomcat Courtney
Tony Braunagel

05/10/08
BIG GEORGE BROCK w/Duck Holmes

05/16/08
Big T & the Family Blues Band

05/17/08
Dave Riley Blues Band

05/23/08
BLUES BENEFIT for Wesley Jefferson

05/24/08
The Central Mississippi Blues Society's all-star blues band

05/30/08
Butch Mudbone Blues Band

05/31/08
Celebrate the anniversary of world-famous Ground Zero Blues Club
JIMBO MATHUS KNOCKDOWN SOUTH

Ground Zero Blues Club opened in May 2001.
Owned by local attorney and businessman, Bill Luckett;
Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi Delta resident, Morgan Freeman;
and Clarksdale native and Memphis entertainment executive, Howard Stovall.




Clarksdale, Mississippi Juke Joint, November 1939

One night I was layin' down,
I heard mama 'n papa talkin'
I heard papa tell mama, let that boy boogie-woogie,
it's in him, and it got to come out
And I felt so good,
went on boogie'n just the same

~ John Lee Hooker
Coahoma County, Mississippi
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"Sittin' out here on 61
Waitin' on the Greyhound bus to run"
~ Blind Mississippi Morris
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