Mathieu Despiau
Terrain By Nick Tilley
JUNE 17, 2020
John Ruskey is, by any estimation, a modern-day Renaissance Man. He’s an artist, musician, writer, speaker, educator, entrepreneur, and conservationist. The man himself would claim he’s a frontiersman, one in the spirit of Meriwether Lewis and John Muir. More modestly, he’d say, “I’m just a river rat, a worker bee in the service of my queen, the Mississippi River.”
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The New York Times
JAN 22, 2020
The dozens of categories include many musicians worth discovering. Listen to their critics’ picks here.
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Chicago Tribune By Alexandra Marvar
FEB 14, 2020
Along the mighty Mississippi, lies a 200-mile diamond-shaped swath of fertile farmland and floodplain known as the Mississippi Delta. It’s a region rich with blues music, civil rights sites, and agribusiness (especially cotton). It’s also the spiritual home of a beloved snack called the hot tamale.
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Mississippi Business Journal By Doug Segrest
NOV 20, 2019
Home of the Delta Blues, this crossroad of cultures gave birth to a uniquely American sound.
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PBS News Hour By Jeffrey Brown and Frank Carlson
JUN 14, 209
In Mississippi’s Clarksdale, the heart of the rural Delta, a celebration of the blues has been drawing thousands of fans to the area for the past 16 years. The Juke Joint Festival, named for bars and informal music venues scattered throughout the African American South in part as a response to whites-only clubs, has helped revitalize a city whose economy was struggling. Jeffrey Brown reports.
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Forbes By Devin Thorpe
MAY 13, 2019
Bubba O’Keefe stands on the stage of the Paramount Theater, backed by the banker who financed his acquisition, Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, appraising the damage, as if conjuring a poorly formed vision of what could be.
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Rory Doyle
NPR By Tom Moon
MAY 9, 2019
Ingram, a 20-year-old phenom, opens his debut album by declaring that he's ready to cut loose.
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UPROXX By Mark C. Stevens
MAY 5, 2019
Clarksdale, your next stop, can easily distract you and convince you to stay put for the rest of your trip.
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Nashville Scene By Ron Wynn
APR 30, 2019
Catching up with the 20-year-old blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ahead of his show with Buddy Guy at the Ryman. Music was not just an ideal career path but also the most logical one for 20-year-old blues sensation Christone "Kingfish" Ingram.
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Mississippi Today By Aallyah Wright
MAR 8, 2019
Downtown Clarksdale’s newest attraction has opened its doors to its one of a kind lodging option.
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Delta Bohemian By Billy Howell
FEB 17, 2019
So, are you thinking about coming to our little mecca in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, but you aren’t too sure what to do when you get here? After all, could there really be that much to do in a town of 15,000+?
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