Mississippi Delta
Clarksdale's best juke joint, with its neon-red mood lighting, plastic-bag ceiling and general soulful disintegration, is the place to see bluesmen howl…
Mississippi Delta
Clarksdale's best juke joint, with its neon-red mood lighting, plastic-bag ceiling and general soulful disintegration, is the place to see bluesmen howl…
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…
Mississippi
Grab a seat at the bar, take your pick of craft beers, order the fried black-eyed peas – they're served in a Mason jar – then kick back for local chitchat…
Mississippi Delta
For blues in polished environs, Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero is a huge and friendly hall with a dance floor surrounded by tables. Bands take to the stage…
Mississippi
All shapes and sizes, colors and creeds descend on this down-home Farish St club when everywhere else closes. It hosts authentic Delta musicians, who have…
Mississippi Delta
When BB King was a boy, Indianola was home to Club Ebony, a fixture on the so-called 'chitlin circuit.' Ebony gave BB his first steady work, and hosted…
Mississippi
Hal & Mal's is an excellent midsize live music venue. The sight lines are great, it feels neither too crowded nor annoyingly expansive, bar service is…
Juke Joint Chapel at the Shack Up Inn
Mississippi Delta
Inside the old cotton gin at the Shack Up Inn, this re-imagined juke joint is loaded with Delta knickknackery and cold beer. It regularly features local…
Mississippi Delta
Across the street from the BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, the Blue Biscuit has live music, from blues to rock and roll, on Saturday nights…
Mississippi
Formerly a livery stable for the family of writer William Faulkner, this 19th-century building is now a rather intimate theater with concrete floors,…
Mississippi
On the Square, this iconic music venue hosts consistently good bands. It also does a nice pub-grub business at lunch and dinner before the stage lights…
Mississippi
This community arts center is the home of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council (named for the fictional county where William Faulkner set much of his fiction),…
Mississippi Delta
The commissary at the old Hopson cotton plantation is now a music venue where you can catch country, party rock and blues acts. The commissary is beside…