Story of a Delta Merchant Family
My family came to Lula around 1940 and started a farm on Flea Harbor Road. The Mississippi Delta offered only a few pathways to having a better life in those…
Tag: Blues
Ground Zero Blues Club
Any blues fan or just a fan of good food has to come see Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Opened in 2001 next to the Delta Blues Museum,…
Bertha Lee Pate
Remembering Bertha Lee from Fanny Baker in the book Chasin’ that Devil Music: Searching for the Blues by Gayle Wardlow written in 1998. Bertha Lee was a fine looking woman…
Robert Nighthawk
“Nobody else could play a slide like him. They think they can but they can’t…. I ain’t never heard anybody play a slide like Robert Nighthawk. It’s wailin’ man.” Thats…
Sam Carr
Sam Carr was born April 17, 1926 in Marvel, Arkansas. Marvel is a small town in Phillips County, just west of Helena. His parents were Robert Lee and…
Front Street Block B, Lula, MS
This was the site of the Keesee Building. It was a white stucco building of Spanish design with red tiles running along the front top porch. There were round…
Lula, Mississippi. Coahoma County
That’s what Lula has been for more than a 100 years. Don’t count it out. Lula is gonna be here for a 100 more.
