Dispatches from Pluto

Go visit Winona or Clarksdale some time. Time just never changed.

Loved the book. It was the crazy quirkiness of that part of Mississippi.

His place was on the West side of Bee Lake. H49 goes by Bee Lake and the beer and marijuana bar he and the black guy went to is a hundred yards or so from the old cotton gin on H-49.

The wife paints and did that gin a year or two back. It hangs in our front hallway.



You should drive through. cross the lake at the gin.





Drive the circle (about 12 miles). When you come to the tractor barn. Their place is/was across the road, down a turn row.

It is not too far to Greenwood, and several there. If you are going that way, stop on your way up in Bentonia and see if the Blue Front Cafe will be open the night you go. As for me, I would frame my trip around a Saturday and come back by the Blue Front. If it is open, Jimmy Duck Holmes will be there and you can tell your grand kids you heard him.

One of the last of a dying breed of Bluesmen.

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Good/decent places to eat in Greenwood, Cleveland, Clarksdale, Indianola, Greenville. I'll come back and post some after thinking a bit.

Nothing I would recommend in Yazoo City, unless you want McDonalds or chain store chicken.

I think the kitchen at Blue Front is no longer open. A word of caution - The Blue Front is very much a Black Juke Joint and Blues club. However you will be very much welcome there, maybe even with a tour buss load of folks from Germany or Denmark. It is a destination spot for Blues lovers from all over the world.