By JIM BEAUGEZ • Photos courtesy of SCALARIA Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience is taking the sound and musicians of the Mississippi Delta to concert halls around the world. The steps leading into Clarksdale’s Ground Zero Blues Club, cheekily given the postal address “0 Blues Alley,” are the entryway to the living heartbeat of […]
By JOEY LEE • Photography by AUSTIN BRITT Clarksdale’s new brew hub is serving up bold, locally inspired brews that are drawing in curious travelers and thirsty locals alike Located in a historic building in downtown Clarksdale, Red Panther Brewing Co. fermented from a simple yet powerful vision: to create a gathering place
By RICK CLEVELAND • Photography by JOHNNY JENNINGS Hailing from Greenwood, Cincinnati Reds second baseman Hugh Critz is still known as one of the finest fielders in baseball history It was the first week of April 1935. Greenwood—the self-proclaimed Cotton Capital of the World—was home to just over 11,000 folks, including one famous Major
By JIM BEAUGEZ • Photos courtesy BRADFORD COBB Tunica native Bradford Cobb became one of LA’s top music-biz magnates, but Mississippi is still home For football fans of Mississippi’s two largest universities, 2014 was already a season to celebrate—both the Mississippi State Bulldogs and Ole Miss Rebels were amid historic, whirlwind seasons.
By MAUDE SCHUYLER CLAY • Photos from the personal collection of CURTIS WILKIE From his third-grade newspaper to The Boston Globe, the circuitous journey that brought Curtis Wilkie home By Curtis Wilkie’s own admission, he was “not a great student,” but he was always drawn to stories and reportage. That natural inclination turned out
By TONY KINTON • Photography by RORY DOYLE The Southern Tradition of Quail Hunting is alive and well in Tallahatchie County Cal and I bonded rather quickly. The inauguration of this linking took flight during my first trip to Trout Valley Quail Preserve just outside Charleston, Mississippi, and even before the dogs were cast
Q&A with Keith Smythe Meacham and Will Hunt Lewis Growing up in the Mississippi Delta There is a common thread in the lore of the Delta. It’s in the seamless blend of high and low, old and new. It applies to all facets of our culture, from our music to
By JIM BEAUGEZ • Photos courtesy of RON ETHERIDGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_muFysubE Click the link above for the premiere “Greenville,” the latest single from Delta native and 2024 Mississippi Songwriter of the Year Ron Etheridge. Greenville native Ron Etheridge wasn’t “a friend of the devil, but a friend of a friend,” as he sings on his new album, Good Family.
By JIM BEAUGEZ With The Barn, Clarksdale native Wright Thompson traces the true story of an infamous Delta murder and examines the global forces that set it in motion. Time will eventually reveal all things, or so goes the adage. The question becomes, will anyone care when time is ready to show its
By JANE GULLY From hunting lodges to stately residences, Memphis designer Wilson Hunt brings the architectural influence of the Mississippi Delta into every project The Mississippi Delta’s sway on Memphis native Wilson Hunt’s growing-up years still influences his designs, which is evident in some way in each of his projects. Hunt, of J.
