Monday, May 7, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Benefit for Ronnie Drew Medical Expenses
Sunday April 1, 2012
April Fool's Day
Ronnie Drew was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He started playing guitar at age 13 after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ronnie has played with several popular regional rock and roll bands over the years including Chance, Fantasy, Second Chance and The Remains. In 2001, he opened his own guitar shop, Bluestown Music, on Delta Avenue in Downtown Clarksdale. Ronnie continues to own and manage Bluestown today, and he still lives in Clarksdale.
We hope that everyone can come out and enjoy an afternoon of good music and fellowship with Ronnie and many of his former band members. All musicians are invited to come and Jam. Music should start around 3. Hope to see everyone at the Commissary.
Ronnie Drew was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He started playing guitar at age 13 after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ronnie has played with several popular regional rock and roll bands over the years including Chance, Fantasy, Second Chance and The Remains. In 2001, he opened his own guitar shop, Bluestown Music, on Delta Avenue in Downtown Clarksdale. Ronnie continues to own and manage Bluestown today, and he still lives in Clarksdale.
We hope that everyone can come out and enjoy an afternoon of good music and fellowship with Ronnie and many of his former band members. All musicians are invited to come and Jam. Music should start around 3. Hope to see everyone at the Commissary.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Duff Dorrough
A benefit fund has been set up at Planters Bank for Duff Dorrough-- the name is " Duff Dorrough Benefit Fund". If you would like to contribute, you can do so by going by Planters or mail check to Planter's Bank, P.O. Box 9, Ruleville, MS 38771. Make Check payable to ' Duff Dorrough Benefit Fund" and put attention to same on the outside of the envelope. Question: call the bank at 1 662 756-4321 ask for Chris West or Amanda Ware.
Also trying to set up a blood drive for Duff. Please keep Duff in your prayers.
Jerry Lee ‘Duff’ Dorrough was born in Memphis Tennessee and raised in Ruleville, Mississippi, the Heart of the Mississippi Delta. Raised up with Blues, Country, Gospel & Pop musical influences, he sang and played drums with local bands throughout high school and college.
The core of Delta musicians that began as The Sausage & Biscuit Boys soon morphed into The Tangents in 1981, featuring Duff with piano man ‘Fish’ Michie and sax player Charlie Jacobs. They stormed the honky tonks from Memphis to New Orleans to the Western states.
Duff formed The Revelators in 2001 with Bobby Harris and Jim Ellis from Drew, Mississippi and the group appeared regularly on Oxford’s Thacker Mountain Radio. The Revelators cut their self-produced cd at Sounds Unreel in Memphis in 2002.
In 2004, Duff released Peace In The Lily of the Valley on Black Dog Records and was invited to join Jim Dickinson in the Thacker Mountain House Band, The Yalobushwackers.
He lives on Sunflower River in The Mississppi Delta and continues to play and record.
Also trying to set up a blood drive for Duff. Please keep Duff in your prayers.
Jerry Lee ‘Duff’ Dorrough was born in Memphis Tennessee and raised in Ruleville, Mississippi, the Heart of the Mississippi Delta. Raised up with Blues, Country, Gospel & Pop musical influences, he sang and played drums with local bands throughout high school and college.
The core of Delta musicians that began as The Sausage & Biscuit Boys soon morphed into The Tangents in 1981, featuring Duff with piano man ‘Fish’ Michie and sax player Charlie Jacobs. They stormed the honky tonks from Memphis to New Orleans to the Western states.
Duff formed The Revelators in 2001 with Bobby Harris and Jim Ellis from Drew, Mississippi and the group appeared regularly on Oxford’s Thacker Mountain Radio. The Revelators cut their self-produced cd at Sounds Unreel in Memphis in 2002.
In 2004, Duff released Peace In The Lily of the Valley on Black Dog Records and was invited to join Jim Dickinson in the Thacker Mountain House Band, The Yalobushwackers.
He lives on Sunflower River in The Mississppi Delta and continues to play and record.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Clarksdale Flood of 1897
Clarksdale Flood of 1897
Patsy Hamilton found a letter that was written to a Mr. N. E. Offenheiser of the Yazoo-Miss. Delta Levee Board. The signature on the letter can't be made out. I will be putting the entire letter up on the website soon. This is a small part of the letter which deals with the flood.
On April 4th 1897 about eleven A.M. The Rev. W.B. Murrah stepped before the congregation and made a the announcement that he had a telegram from Tunica advising that the Levee had broken at Flower Lake. The Mayor Mr. Walter Clark, requested all men present to meet him down at the bridge over the Sunflower River at 2nd St. All the men ran from the Church to the River. They started plowing Sunflower St with Oxen and all the men used shovels and hoes to pile the dirt as high as they could all the way down Sunflower to protect the town.
The men continued to work and it began to rain. The town had enough water from the rain to ride in boats all over town. The town ran out of whiskey. All the men pooled their money and Howell Hopson called B.J. Semmes in Memphis and asked him to send down two barrels of whiskey on the Kate Adams to Friars Point.
The following morning Hopson got into a boat he had tied to a sycamore tree at the top of Cutrer hill. Hopson went to Friars Point for the whiskey, and returned that afternoon about 4 P.M.They rolled out and placed the barrels on the side walk. Each man had his tin cup ready and had a wonderful celebration.
The water from the flood reached the levee they had erected but not up against it. The town was not washed away.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Juke Joint Festival Music Line-up
Juke Joint Festival Weekend!
Hopson Commissary Music Line Up
Friday April 15
9pm- Bruce Brewer & The Deep Water Baptists- main stage
Eden Brent- back porch
Saturday April 16
12 noon- KM Williams & Washboard Jackson
2pm- Paul Ray Thomas
3pm- Deak Harp
4-7- Tullie Brae
9pm- Big George Brock & The Houserockers- main stage
Bearnie Pearl- back porch
Take the train to Hopson
We will have crawfish & BBQ to eat on Saturday
Friday April 22
Willy Waggs
9pm
Saturday April 30
One Way Out Band
9pm
Hopson Commissary
PO Box 1486
Clarksdale, MS 38614
(662) 624-5756
Don't Forget!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Pinetop Services
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins
July 7, 1913 - March 21, 2011
It is with deep sadness that we announce Pinetop Perkins passed away peacefully at home on
Monday, March 21, 2011 in Austin, TX at the age of 97.
Visitation and Funeral Services
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Century Funeral Home - Clarksdale, MS
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The weekly jam at Ground Zero Blues Club will be dedicated to Pinetop in Memoriam.
Donations will be accepted. The jam will be hosted by Philip Carter and the
Blues Underground and is an open jam starting at 8:00PM.
Visitation
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Century Funeral Home
506 Ashton Avenue, Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-627-4182
Ground Zero Blues Club will host a reception for friends and fans of
Pinetop from 2:00PM - 6:00PM. Hors d'oeuvres will be served and the
bandstand will be available to anyone who wants to play.
Funeral Service
Saturday, April 2, 2011 - 11:00am
Century Funeral Home or larger venue TBA
506 Ashton Avenue, Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-627-4182
Burial
Saturday, April 2, 2011 - immediately following funeral service
McLaurin Memorial Garden Cemetery
Highway 61 North
Clarksdale, MS 38614
Celebration of Life and Repast
Saturday, April 2, 2011 - immediately following burial
8:00PM - Music by Guitar Mikey, Billy Gibson, Peter Nunn plus Special Guests
Hopson Commissary
8141 Old Highway 49 S, Clarksdale, MS
662-624-5756
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Pinetop Perkins RIP
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Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins |
| It is with deep sadness that we announce that Pinetop Perkins passed away on Monday, March 21, 2011 at his home in Austin, TX. Arrangements are pending and will be announced as soon as they are formalized. ENTER SITE |
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