RiCK SAUNDERSAmerica's Last Juke Joints.
This isn't all of them by any means, and the important one they show in the first photo is defunct, but it's a good primer for folks who are unfamiliar.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/17/americas-last-juke-joints/
#Blues #JukeJoint #PoMonkey #Reds #GroundZero (not really a juke but it likes to pretend it is and does a good job of it. If Disney had a juke in #clarksdale...) #DeepBlues #GoatFest
This isn't all of them by any means, and the important one they show in the first photo is defunct, but it's a good primer for folks who are unfamiliar.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/17/americas-last-juke-joints/
#Blues #JukeJoint #PoMonkey #Reds #GroundZero (not really a juke but it likes to pretend it is and does a good job of it. If Disney had a juke in #clarksdale...) #DeepBlues #GoatFest
America's Last Juke Joints
Before the Juke Box, there was the Juke Joint, a reverberating sanctum of the Mississippi Delta and the indefinable heartbeat of southern African American culture. The traditional Juke Joint seems to have grown out of the landscape more than it was constructed. A ramshackle collection of lost and found, partner to the barrel house and…