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Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

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…

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Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

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,…

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Posted on March 6, 2019January 11, 2020

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…

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Posted on November 21, 2018January 9, 2020

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…

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Posted on November 21, 2018January 11, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 26, 2018January 9, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 18, 2018January 9, 2020

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.

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