Smoot's Grocery

Mississippi


Smoot's Grocery, we like how you sing the blues. Housed in a well-worn former grocery close to the Mississippi, this beer hall loves live music. It's mostly blues bands, but you might catch swamp rock, roots music, soul or zydeco. Tuxedoed wedding guests, dance-floor divas and pool-playing good ole boys – it seems everyone's here at some point.


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