FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Juke Joint Festival Spotlights Miss. Blues History

In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy- winner David "Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing pigs and monkeys riding on dogs. More than 50 musical acts are scheduled to play at the three-day event that starts Thursday in the Mississippi Delta city that was hometown to blues icons Son House, Junior Parker and John Lee Hooker and childhood home of playwright Tennessee Williams...

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