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Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the last Bentonia bluesman to carry on the town's unique musical and oral storytelling tradition. Despite newfound fame after being nominated for a Grammy, he has never considered leaving his small Mississippi community.
The city of Corsicana extends its hospitality through a unique group of ambassadors who stand throughout the town on street corners and in front of key buildings and memorials â permanently. Corsicanaâs Bronze Sculpture Tour is a life-sized art exhibit that tells stories about the unique individuals who built the cityâs history. Created by different artists, most of the lifelike sculptures interact with the cityscape: an oil field worker appears to cross a street on his way home; a pastry chef leans over to offer a fruitcake to passersby; and a pet wolf guards the spot where it...
The Great Migration In Reverse In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my advertising career moved me to St. Louis. A year later, I was sitting in Junior’s Place — a rural juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, a.k.a. the middle of nowhere. And my life was changed. Old bluesmen, young bluesmen. Folk art on the walls, moonshine in plastic jugs. And a local African American audience bursting from an ancient structure clearly built without th...