Clarksdale

We took the Mississippi Blues Trail ( http://www.msbluestrail.org/ ) from Natchez to Clarksdale. This turned out to be a fun little hunt for markers in various towns and roadside locations along our way. Most of them were quite humble, none was spectacular in and of itself, but altogether they made for an enjoyable scavenger hunt and drew us into some out-of-the-way towns we otherwise would have just driven by. This was the tiny home of blues legend Muddy Waters, for example, complete with a bottle tree.


The bottle tree thing is something we don't see much of in California. Turns out there's quite a history behind bottle trees. Although I know nothing about him as an authoritative source, I liked Felder Rushing's "Bottle Tree History" which you can find at http://www.felderrushing.net/HistoryofBottleTrees.htm

Night found us in Clarksdale, munching on Wendy's lovely bacon-free salads and eagerly awaiting a show at Red's Lounge, a divy juke joint that's about as authentic as it gets. See if you can find the blues club in this photo!