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Clarksdale is a small city in the Mississippi Delta, about 75 miles south of Memphis on U.S. Highway 61, and the seat of Coahoma County. It draws blues listeners because a disproportionate number of the musicians who shaped Delta blues — Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Ike Turner among them — were born … Read more
Tunica is a county and small town in the Mississippi Delta, roughly 30 miles south of Memphis, that became one of the largest casino markets in the United States after Mississippi legalized dockside gambling in 1990. Today it holds a smaller but still active casino strip, a river museum, and a documented history of extreme … Read more
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