Clarksdale (Mississippi)

Coahoma County

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Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County and the county seat ( county seat ) in the State of Mississippi with about 20,000 inhabitants. Clarksdale is located in the center of that region, which is referred to outside somewhat misleading, as " Mississippi Delta " (this is, this is not about the mouth region of the Mississippi, but the inland delta of the Yazoo River, one of the major tributaries of the Mississippi).

Clarksdale is known as the home of the blues. From Clarksdale and the surrounding area are well-known blues musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Eddie Boyd, Big Jack Johnson and Sam Cooke.

In Clarksdale, the Delta Blues Museum. Robert Johnson is said to have sold in Clarksdale his soul to the devil in order to play the real blues - as he described it in his play Crossroads.

The writer Tennessee Williams spent his holidays regularly in Clarksdale. The actor Morgan Freeman lives in Clarksdale, where it operates jointly with business partners blues club "Ground Zero". At the intersection, is said to have met at the Johnson the devil, is since 1937 Abe 's Barbecue, one of the legendary restaurants of Southern barbecue.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Andy Anderson, rockabilly musicians
  • Eddie Boyd, blues musicians
  • Jackie Brenston, blues musicians
  • Willie Brown, blues musician
  • Eddie Calhoun, jazz bassist
  • Sam Cooke, singer
  • John Lee Hooker, influential blues musicians
  • Lurlean Hunter, jazz singer
  • "The Giant Arnold " Max Palmer, actor and wrestler
  • Junior Parker, blues singer and harmonica player
  • Ike Turner, musician and producer
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