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Mississippi Blues Trail
August 5 - 11, 2010, I took a trip to the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. My first stop was the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. From Memphis I traveled Highway 61 south to Clarksdale. Friday and Saturday I attended the blues festival. At night, I went to Red's, a ramshackle juke joint to hear live blues music by Big Jack Johnson. On Sunday, I traveled to Greenwood, Mississippi, to rent an authentic shack at Tallahatchie Flats, and visit the B.B. King Museum in Indianola. Tuesday was my last day in the Delta, and I traveled back to Memphis to visit the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Beale Street, and the National Civil Rights Museum, culminating at the Cozy Corner Restaurant for the finest Bar-B-Q in Memphis. Along the way I had visited many of the historic, Blues Trail Markers in many Delta towns.

American Music Festival
July 3, 2010, I went to the festival at Fitzgerald's. Inside the club, at 2:15pm I saw Boston folk singer Eilen Jewell, and at 3:45pm from Nashville was roots rocker Webb Wilder. Outside the club, and under the big tent at 5:45pm was the Washington D.C. blues band The Nighthawks. About a half hour later, the legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin joined the band. Around 7:30pm, the roots rock band The Blasters featuring Phil and Dave Alvin took the stage, and were later joined by Chicago, harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold. The final show of the night under the tent was singer, songwriter Joe Ely whose music touches on honky-tonk, country and rock and roll, started at 10:30pm and finished shortly after midnight. Ely is from Austin, Texas.

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
June 29, 2010, I photographed Black Joe Lewis at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Black Joe Lewis formed the band in Austin, Texas in 2007. The band sounds very much like a product of the 21st century, even though the songs could’ve been written 50 years ago.

Updates Mississippi Blues Trail August 5 - 11, 2010, I took a trip to the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. My first stop was the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. From Memphis I traveled Highway 61 south to Clarksdale. Friday and Saturday I attended the blues festival. At night, I went to Red's, a ramshackle juke joint to hear live blues music by Big Jack Johnson. On Sunday, I traveled to Greenwood, Mississippi, to rent an authentic shack at Tallahatchie Flats, and visit the B.B. King Museum in Indianola. Tuesday was my last day in the Delta, and I traveled back to Memphis to visit the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Beale Street, and the National Civil Rights Museum, culminating at the Cozy Corner Restaurant for the finest Bar-B-Q in Memphis. Along the way I had visited many of the historic, Blues Trail Markers in many Delta towns. American Music Festival July 3, 2010, I went to the festival at Fitzgerald's. Inside the club, at 2:15pm I saw Boston folk singer Eilen Jewell, and at 3:45pm from Nashville was roots rocker Webb Wilder. Outside the club, and under the big tent at 5:45pm was the Washington D.C. blues band The Nighthawks. About a half hour later, the legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin joined the band. Around 7:30pm, the roots rock band The Blasters featuring Phil and Dave Alvin took the stage, and were later joined by Chicago, harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold. The final show of the night under the tent was singer, songwriter Joe Ely whose music touches on honky-tonk, country and rock and roll, started at 10:30pm and finished shortly after midnight. Ely is from Austin, Texas. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears June 29, 2010, I photographed Black Joe Lewis at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Black Joe Lewis formed the band in Austin, Texas in 2007. The band sounds very much like a product of the 21st century, even though the songs could’ve been written 50 years ago.	Terry "Big T" Williams
	Terry "Big T" Williams performed at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival, and proved that real-deal blues and soul are very much alive in the Delta. Born in Clarksdale in 1960, he spent his early years on a plantation in Farrell, Mississippi, hearing stories about Muddy Waters attending Sunday picnics in his grandmother’s yard.
Mr. Tater Foster Wylie (aka Mr. Tater the Music Maker) is the last street musician in the Mississippi Delta. He can often be found playing the blues outside of Cat Head Delta Music and Folk Art in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The flamboyant, outgoing Mr. Tater has appeared in several documentary films and recorded a number of self-released independent albums, including the 2007 "Take A Walk In The Park With Mr Tater." His name and likeness has appeared in The New York Times, Gourmet Magazine, and the liner notes to the Grammy-nominated Elvis Costello album "The Delivery Man."