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DELTA BLUES GRAVES

Very well kept up cemetery .. Booker T Washington White is laying in the first of the four w. flat ‘headstone’   ~  

aka BUKKA WHITE

THIS is a BLUES fan BELOW,  searching for the Grave of harmonica musician, ‘Alec Miller’  aka Sonny Boy Williamson II  ~ the two grave headstones on your right is where his sisters lay, both killed in a fire. 

ALBERT KING to your right.  

GRAVES of DELTA MUSICIANS

THE Willie Brown GRAVE

CO-FOUNDER OF DELTA BLUES

MISSISSIPPI RAMBLIN’ – click on pix

DELTA BOHEMIAN TOURS

KINGFISH

SUPER CHIKAN

Lucci Spiller

STAY HERE IN CLARKSDALE MS

CASH McCALL – R.I.P. – aka Morris Dollison Jr. -Cash remarked recently that “the late great Willie Dixon taught me everything I know about the blues and I played with him for many many years.” Dixon wrote some of the most coveted songs in the history of popular music and enriched many a glittering career. In 1978 Cash performed with the Etta James band as the opening act for the Rolling Stones “Some Girls” album tour of America -Dixon wrote “Little Red Rooster”.

CASH McCALL RIP

ROCKnBLUES MUSEUM closing/closed

IN CLARKSDALE MS THE ROCK AND BLUES MUSEUM WILL CLOSE END JANUARY 2019 BY THEO ` END OF AN ERA :      http://www.blues2rock.com/Blues2Rock/index.html         – Theo moved from the Netherlands to Clarksdale, bringing his rock museum with him… lots of BLUES! 

ROCK AND BLUES MUSEUM ~

 

Rock and Blues Museum with Theo the Boogieman

Come visit before we close our doors! The Rock & Blues Museum Clarksdale is open today, January 18 & 19, and Jan 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and Jan 28 & 29 from 10 am to 5 pm. Visit the ROCK & BLUES MUSEUM for its final week of regular operation (Mon-Sat; then next Mon-Tues): www.blues2rock.com

Last of original Hill Country Deep Bluesmen

HILL COUNTRY BLUESMAN ~ Robert Wolfman Belfour

ROBERT WOLFMAN BELFOUR

Robert “Wolfman” Belfour (September 11, 1940 – February 24, 2015) was an Americanbluesmusician. He was born in Red Banks, Mississippi.[1] When he was a child, his father, Grant Belfour, taught him to play the guitar, and he continued his tutelage in the blues from the musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough, in particular, had a profound influence on him. His music was rooted in Mississippi hill country traditions, in contrast to Delta blues. His playing was characterized by a percussive attack and alternate tunings.[2]

 

Robert Wolfman Belfour

Deep Hill Country Bluesman

MAY HIS SOUL BE BLESSED … R.I.P.

Robert Wolfman Belfour

ROBERT Wolfman BELFOUR

THE LEGEND – HUBERT SUMLIN – played w. Howlin’ Wolf.

AN INSPIRATION TO THE ROLLING STONES, TO ERIC CLAPTON ET AL .. ONE OF THE TOP FIFTY GUITARISTS IN THE WORLD… Howlin’ Wolf’s LEAD guitarist. Hubert is in the BLUES HALL OF FAME.  WHEN HE DIED, THE ROLLING STONES PAID FOR HIS FUNERAL WHILE ERIC CLAPTON PUT ON A BENEFIT SHOW WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST MUSICIANS TO HONOR THIS MAN. I MET HIM IN HIS ‘DRESSING ROOM’ BEFORE A SHOW .. HE KNEW A COUSIN OF MINE .. COULDN’T BE HAPPIER TO MEET ME AS I WAS BLOWN AWAY MEETING MY IDOL. WE CHATTED / LAUGHED .. ONLY HE, I AND HIS MANAGER WERE THERE … WHAT A TERRIBLE LOSS.

 

HUBERT greeting his old friend.

BOB CORRITORE w. HUBERT SUMLIN ~ King Biscuit Blues Fest.

 

The LAST of the BENTONIA BLUESMEN ~ JIMMY Duck HOLMES

 FROM JIMMY:  “I want younger people to see it and get the passion for it and carry it on. It’s important. It’s blues, so it’s the foundation all American music was built on. And it’s the truth –”    

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES in his BLUE FRONT CAFE Juke.

JIMMYY DUCK HOLMES

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES in front of his BLUE FRONT CAFE

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES in front of his BLUE FRONT CAFE

oldest juke in MS

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

Jimmy DUCK Holmes NOW has DICK WATERMAN as his manager as well as his OWN Record Label via Michael Schultze 2016/2017 and beyond.

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

BLUES BLUES BLUES

HIS BLUE FRONT CAFE, IN BENTONIA MISSISSIPPI, WAS BUILT BY HIS PARENTS in 1948 ` jimmy, the youngest of 14, learned from JACK OWENS ‘BENTONIA STYLE’  BLUES ~ 

JIMMYY DUCK HOLMES JIMMYY DUCK HOLMES – this photo has been ‘EXPLORED’ at #23 ~

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES in his BLUE FRONT CAFE Juke. JIMMY DUCK HOLMES in his BLUE FRONT CAFE Juke.

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

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CO-FOUNDER of the DELTA BLUES

https://sheindie.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/searching-for-the-grave-of-the-willie-lee-brown-cofounder-of-the-delta-blues/      WILLIE LEE BROWN & CHARLEY PATTON GREW UP ON DOCKERY PLANTATION .. CHARLEY BECAME A STAR .. THEY BOTH CO-FOUNDED THE DELTA  BLUES.  SON HOUSE AND WILLIE BROWN MET AT LULA- BECAME BEST FRIENDS .. PLAYED GUITARS TOGETHER – ROBERT JOHNSON WENT TO LISTEN UP IN ROBINSONVILLE MS – PICKED UP A FEW TIPS OVER TWO WEEKS FROM SON HOUSE .. ROBERT JOHNSON BECAME  ‘THE’ Robert Johnson !!  .. STOLE MUSIC HE HEARD/LEARNED FROM SON HOUSE .. DID NOT CREDIT HIM!! 

PHOTOS and MORE below:

https://sheindie.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/searching-for-willie-lee-brown/