Friday, April 29, 2016

Some Blues Stops Visited in April 2004

Sonny  Boy's grave outside Tutwiler, Mississippi


Whiskey bottle, harp, coins to honor this gifted, iconic bluesman


Water tower in town


Clarksdale, MS: a small blues club on the outskirts of town, Bobby Rush poster


Clarksdale: Riverside Hotel where so many blues singers stayed,
 and where Bessie Smith died after a car crash in 1937

The old Union Station in Clarksdale


Old gas station in Lula, MS


City park and water tower in Lula (in contrast to previous image!)


Just north of Greenwood, MS, the place Robert Johnson was laid to rest in 1938



The graveyard


Looking back to the church building

Robert's grave


Robert's grave




The incredible inscription showing RJ's dying plea


The pecan trees surrounding the graves


Chicago: Buddy Guy's Legends nightclub 


Legends, other side


Bonnie Bramlett inside BG's Legends


Bonnie Bramlett


Bonnie

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