Robert Johnson Blues Festival

[Money]

The beer will definately be flowing Crow. It oughta be a wang dang doodle.

[Antonio Washington]

Hey, hey, the blues is alright!

[hwy61DuckCamp]

Along this same topic...are there still any "joints" in the area where one can still find "native" music ? I had heard about a place in Merigold once....The Doo Drop Inn ?? There use to be a place on 61 south of Duncan....on the east side of the highway...stopped in there one evening after a duck hunt wearing our waders and camo and boy did we get some looks....We made it clear all we wanted was a stovepipe for the road (tallboy for you youngsters) and hit the highway home.... The place near Duncan burned, but there must be some around there...say between Cleveland and Clarksdale out in the country somewhere....

I know most of em are "shoot n stab" joints, but they have some good tunes in those places sometimes ! I would enjoy a spot with some live/local country or bluegrass too, but seems like thats getting harder and harder to find these days....Seems like years back, every little country town had live music on the weekends somewhere...?

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Wingman, I think the gospel music is a blend of traditional black gospel(really hopping, predecessor to the blues) and modern gospel (up-tempo R&B). It'll have you itchin and twitchin, and filled with the holy ghost.

[Ducks be us]

Try http://www.deltablues.net

[Antonio Washington]

Will Rev. T Moore's Money Mississippi Tabernacle Choir be on hand?

[Money]

Yep, they will playing over at the "Kentucky Tavern ".

[TODO]

Hwy 61-

Do Drop Inn is in shelby. I think it is still open but not positive. Shelby's gov't trying to close all them places down at midnight, which is tough on business. Club owners been in the local paper saying there outta business less the ordainance lifted. Anyway, as far as a real joint where u wont get stabbed, po' monkey lounge in merigold your place. willie seaberry welcomes anybody, and hes got live entertainment on monday nights.

[TODO]

Po monkey-

Whats up with junior at the juke joint. He hardly ever posts anything new, must be in bad health? There is some real good reads on there.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

BMF, you're right. He must have gotten ahold of some bad moonshine or something. Pretty stale information on his site (although informative and fun to read).

[Antonio Washington]

Has anyone seen a documentary called "The Search for Robert Johnson". It was filmed about 12 or 15 years ago. It's worth a look if you can find it. I rented it at a video store several years ago. I haven't been able to find it since.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Don, didn't mean to highjack your thread.

The Robert Johnson Blues Festival is a great idea for Greenwood.

My "cousin", David "Honeyboy" Edwards, is headlining this festival. He is one of the last bluesmen living that played the blues with Robert on the chitlin circuit. He performs some soulful old Delta blues classics on acoustic guitar.

Due to the popularity of the Sunflower River Blues Festival with blues fans, I think Greenwood will need to find a different date to have its festival in the future ----very hard to compete. Would have been nice for this Greenwood festival to have been this past weekend. I would like to go, but can't be in both places at once.

[Antonio Washington]

Po Monkey, the documentary I was referring to had some clips of Honey Boy Edwards talking about playing along side RJ. I did a search on the web and found a few places to buy this documentary. If you haven't seen it, you need to. It's a must see.

[RebelYelp]

alright,

some of you fellas that know more bout it than me, if a fella wanted to hear him some good blues one night when he's up in the delta huntin this season and the two places he's stayin is about 8 miles up hwy 7 from greenwood, and about 6 miles south of itta bena (at morgan city), where would he go to hear some good ole music ???

[Bully]

I grew up in Clarksdale. For some reason, these blues festivals don't excite me at all. Don't get me wrong, I love listening to a good blues band, but it is something about the festivals that doesn't get me going. Maybe because I grew up there, I get tired of hearing about the blues. These festivals also bring in some pretty weird characters from around the world.