2018 Deep Blues Festival October 11-14 Clarksdale BUY TICKETS here Event Schedule Thursday, October 11 Molly Gene One Whoaman Band Venue: The New Roxy 7:00 PM Jimbo Mathus and the Dirty Crooks Venue: The New Roxy 8:00 PM RL Boyce Venue: The Shack Up Inn […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on September 6th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1877: Cornet player and early developer of New Orleans’ jazz and ragtime, Buddy Bolden (“Funky Butt”, Buddy Bolden’s Blues”, “Callin’ My Chillun’ Home”) born in New Orleans. 1925: Blues great Jimmy Reed […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on September 4th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1781: Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish settlers. 1882: Thomas Edison starts the first commercial electric power plant in history. 1888: George Eastman gets his patent for a camera that uses […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 30th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1800: Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. 1836: Houston, Texas founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 29th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 708: Copper coins in Japan for the first time. 1758: First reservation established for Native American Indians at Indian Mills, New Jersey. 1831: Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday. 1885: The first […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 28th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1845: The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. 1898: Caleb Bradham invents a carbonated soft drink that later becomes Pepsi-Cola. 1925: Dancer great and actor Donald O’Connor (“Singin’ in the […]
Today’s song from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. With heartfelt honor on the day that Stevie Ray Vaughan left us in 1990, “White Boots” is a song off the album “Family Style” by brothers Jimmie and Stevie Ray. The album was recorded in Memphis, Dallas and New York in […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 27th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1776: The British win the Battle of Long Island (General William Howe defeats George Washington, but the Brits lose the war at Yorktown in 5 years later). 1832: Chief Blackhawk of the […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 26th from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 1902: Blues, swing jazz singer, and featured singer of Count Basie’s Orchestra, Jimmy Rushing (“Mister Five by Five”, “Good Morning Blues”) born in Oklahoma City. 1936: Helen McKay sings the first song […]
Notable events in music history that have happened on August 22nd from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues and rock n’ roll. 565: Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 1654: Jacob Barsimson is first Jewish immigrant to come to New Amsterdam in America. 1890: Delta blues fiddler and songwriter, who played […]
