On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:34:11 GMT, "Fred" wrote:


On 10-Jul-2009, MajorOz wrote:

Go to Greenville MS, spend a night or three at some of
the black blues juke joints,

The Blues trail also includes Clarksdale MS and
Parchman "Farm" Prison ( from the outside only of course)
are also worthwhile visitng for a cultural blues odyssey

Fred

FWIW, Clarksdale is the "Home of the Blues," where "the crossroads" are (where
State Highways 61 and 49 merge), etc., and while it, too, has become more, um,
tourist-y over the years, not as much as Greenville, IMO. To me, Greenville is
more a couples/bed-n-breakfast/The Alluvian kinda place, whereas Clarksdale is
more a tamales-n-Jack Black outta the bottle kind of place, but there's just not
a lot of "juke joint" kinda places _in_ either town (and really, there never
were _in the towns_ per se). If you think about it, with what a "juke joint"
really is, there would be no reason for a bunch of them to be in town. Now, if
you're talking about all of Coahoma County, that's a different matter.

TC,
R