Live show! 6 pm – Friday, April 10 – Juke Joint Festival Clarksdale MS! with…
Blues legend Bobby Rush! (Solo blues harp)
with author Ralph Eubanks (When It’s Darkness on the Delta) Book signing on site!
Bobby’s memoir, Ain’t Studdin’ Ya, available on site
with special guest…
TWURT Chamberlain – Country Punk Black – High energy, positive message!
Hosts: Jim Dees with our house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
FREE Admission! Outdoor stage! Lawn chairs, picnic blankets encouraged!
Outdoor stage on Delta Avenue between the Carnegie Public Library and the Red Panther Brewing Co.
NOTE: No live broadcast.
Show will be recorded for air later this spring on all our platforms including Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Bring the kids! Come see us!
Happy Spring yall!
Ninety-three years (!) young, Bobby Rush is a force of nature – three-time Grammy winner, Blues Hall of Famer, six-time Grammy nominee, and 18-time Blues Music Award winner, with a cameo in the hysterical Eddie Murphy Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name and a recent autobiography, I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya.
Do not try this at home.
You can even add Oscar winner: Bobby appears in the film and soundtrack for Sinners, the blues vampire film that won the 2026 Oscar for Best Score.
Bobby’s recent albums include Young Fashioned Ways (RAM Records and Deep Rush Records/Thirty Tigers) with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Also look for his 2024 Record Day single with the Blind Boys of Alabama and Don Flemons, 99 and 1/2 Won’t Do.
Ralph Eubanks is the author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land (Beacon Press).
The Mississippi Delta is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol’ boy politics and white-washed histories lies the Delta’s true story.
Eubanks delivers a powerful and insightful examination of how racism and economic instability have shaped life in the Mississippi Delta.
“Eubanks speaks truth to power about an iconic and ill-understood American landscape and proves beyond question that as the Mississippi Delta goes, so goes our republic.” — Richard Ford
“Ralph Eubanks nimbly, and profoundly, rides the voices of the folks making the Delta.” – Kiese Laymon
Ralph Eubanks is a faculty fellow and writer in residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
He is the author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, as well as two other works of nonfiction, Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road.
Ralph’s work has garnered numerous honors including a Guggenheim fellowship, a 2021-2022 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowship, and a 2023 Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for excellence in literature and in recognition of Ralph’s role as a cultural ambassador for the state of Mississippi.
Twurt (“The World’s most Unique Representation of Truth”) Chamberlain is a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Lexington, Mississippi. He is a soulful vocalist and guitarist whose music is a fusion of blues, rock and hip-hop focusing on uplifting, positive lyrics.
His latest album is Country Punk Black.
