Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

What's the real meaning of "juke joint"? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.

Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.

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Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

What's the real meaning of "juke joint"? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.

Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.

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Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life

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What's the real meaning of "juke joint"? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.

Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467141574
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 08/05/2019
Series: Landmarks
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 1,068,940
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author


Roger Stolle owns Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, a blues store in Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as his own music and tourism marketing service. He is a Blues Revue magazine columnist, WROX radio deejay, XM/Sirius radio correspondent, Ground Zero Blues Club music coordinator and Juke Joint Festival cofounder. Award-winning photographer Lou Bopp has photographed a majority of the most significant Mississippi blues musicians in recent years, from James “T-Model†Ford to “Big†George Brock.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jeff Konkel 7

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 15

Isn't Every Blues Club a 'Juke Joint"? 17

Welcome to Wonder Light City 30

If the Walls Could Talk, Part I 41

Moonshine aka White Whiskey 62

The Death of Po Monkey's 71

The Juke Joint Hotel? 81

Red's Lounge…and Attitude 94

If the Walls Could Talk, Part II 105

100 Men DBA Hall 126

Taking Juke Joints on Tour 134

Juke Joint Festival 154

Bibliography 163

Index 169

About the Author and the Photographer 173

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