This page is a tribute to musicians, artist and my hometown. This page is meant for entertainment and hopefully educational fun. Enjoy!I was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It is home to the legendary crossroads of hwy 49 and 61.
After high school I moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
While living in Biloxi/Gulfport I was involed with several theater groups. I did a little bit of everything; co-wrote, acted, lights, and hair/make-up.I was nominated twice for a Bravo Award for Best Actor.(community theater) I also served on the Board of Directors for a year at Biloxi Little Theatre.You can also find my name in the Acknowledgements of Rick Coleman's biography of BLUE MONDAY FATS DOMINO AND THE LOST DAWN OF ROCK AND ROLL. I am listed as "Other music friends who helped...Eddie Hillman".During the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s Clarksdale was home to Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Ike Turner, to name just a handful of great bluesmen who staked their claim in Clarksdale.By the 1950’s Clarksdale was also host to a now-legendary down-home radio station, WROX, which, like other stations in the region, hosted a number of popular bluesmen. Sonny Boy Williamson, most well-known for his King Biscuit Flour program on Helena, Arkansas’ KFFA, often broadcast on Clarksdale radio, as did Dr. Isiaih Ross and so many others.Consequently, Clarksdale became the first urban center of the blues and it makes the most of that fact even today. The Mississippi Delta’s first blues museum, The Delta Blues Museum, and one of its first yearly blues festivals, The Sunflower River Blues Festival, are both located there, as is the Delta’s first motel made from discarded farm laborers' shacks, The Shack Up Inn. If you believe in the Crossroads myth, between the town of Clarksdale itself and the site of The Shack Up Inn, there is a rather grandiose marker at the intersection of Highways 61 and 49 where the dubious deal was deemed to have been devined.A great deal of blues activity has occurred in Clarksdale in the last few years. In addition to all the above, there is a grand juke joint in Morgan Freeman's & Bill Luckett’s Ground Zero nightclub. It features blues and other forms of music many nights a week and plays host to some of the South’s great entertainers.
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