Clarksdale

You still feel it there, mostly because it hasn’t changed all that much. Sure there are different buildings, and different people, different conditions all around… but the poverty is there, underlying it all. “When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues…”—part of some old blues song, can’t remember which

Do visit all the places mentioned, and also don’t miss the Shack Up Inn… if you are passing through, you gotta stay there.

go to Ground Zero, Morgan Freeman’s club
Medidi’s, great Italian restaurant he co-owns

Going to Clarksdale is like going back in time; it’s finding yourself at those fabled crossroads and following the devil home.