Juke Joint Festival Celebrates 20 Years

By ROBERT MCFARLAND, JR.      Twenty years ago this April, a Clarksdale star was born. Its name? Juke Joint Festival.      John Clark founded Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1848, when he bought land in the area and started a timber business. The town became a large trading center in the northern part of the Mississippi Delta. […]

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