Riverside Hotel
615 Sunflower Avenue
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-624-9163
Originally a hospital, The Riverside Hotel was bought in 1944 and turned into a hotel where guests such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. have stayed. A memorial for blues artist Bess Smith, who died in 1937, is located in Room #2 for this was the emergency room where she died when the hospital was open.
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This is a wonderful place for blues fans and other ethnomusicologists. I loved talking with the owner. (nicknamed "Rat") We talked about the supposed first rock & Roll record ever, Rocket 88, by Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner among others. Rat said: "Man, they cut the demo in the basement!" This place is blues history!
Hub Kelsh at at 09:15AM, 2010/11/15.
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