the LAST of BENTONIA Bluesmen `

oldest juke in MS

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

Jimmy Duck Holmes, the youngest of 14, is the last of the Bentonia Bluesman .. taught by Jack Owens .. same style as Skip James from Bentonia ~J

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

 

JIMMY DUCK HOLMES

 

CON ALMA de BLUES magazine ~ published BLUES photos

THIS ARGENTINA BLUES MAGAZINE FEATURES A PAGE OF MY BLUES PHOTOGRAPHY – p.54

Blues Magazine features my photos ~

NEW issue #4 english~ CON ALMA de Blues magazine from Argentina

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

CO-FOUNDER OF DELTA BLUES

MISSISSIPPI RAMBLIN’ – click on pix

AVALON

cotton fields

BIG A at RED’S

diddly bo musician

MS John Hurt played in front of this store

oldest juke in MS

where the blues was born

MUDDY WORKED HERE

Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson ??

Bessie Smith/Riverside

LeLand MS

Jail where Patton and Bertha were housed

PRICHARD

ground zero blues club

Clarksdale MS

Willie Lee Brown is buried in Prichard

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

ROBERT KIMBROUGH, SR.

 

 

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR    

 

 

 

Robert Kimbrough Sr. PHOTO © Shein Die ~ All Rights Reserved.

 

 

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]

 

Deep Hill Country Bluesman

MAY HIS SOUL BE BLESSED … R.I.P.

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.

 

LEO BUD WELCH has left us –

LEO BUD WELCH

SUPERSTAR LEO BUD WELCH BEGAN HIS INTERNATIONAL BLUES CAREER AT AGE 80! TRAVELED THE WORLD PERFORMING -WINNER OF AWARDS -RECORDED TWO ALBUMS WAS WORKING ON HIS THIRD.   ~ I MET HIM AT THE CLARKSDALE JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND CONTINUED TO ATTEND EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF LEO PERFORMING  ~ He passed Dec. 20 2018 at home. 

LEO BUD WELCH – 85 year old Bluesman ~

LEO BUD WELCH

 

LEO BUD WELCH ~ 83 yr. old Super Star.