A Night of Hill Country and Cotton Patch Soul Blues in Olive Branch For the R. L. Burnside Museum

1836 Grill and Bar-B-Que is owned by some people from Ripley, Mississippi who had a bar there of the same name, and on February 15, 2026, it was the scene of a night of great Hill Country and Cotto…

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Hot Weather and Hot Blues at the Mississippi Hill Country’s Biggest Weekend

Each year, on the last weekend in June, blues musician Kenny Brown and his wife Sarah host the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic at Betty Davis’s Ponderosa at Waterford, Mississippi. For …

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Ripley Celebrates the Burnside Music Legacy and the Hill Country Blues

R.L. Burnside’s son Garry moved to Ripley, Mississippi in Tippah County a few years ago, and since that time, he has become a major fixture on the city’s music scene, organizing an annu…

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Clarksdale Celebrates The Blues And The Juke Joint Culture That Gave It Birth

Most people throw themselves a party on their birthday, but Cat Head Delta Blues owner Roger Stolle throws one for his whole adopted hometown on the weekend in April nearest his birthday every year…

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