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JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL 2008 - CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI: will be Saturday, April 19, 2008.
You might ask:
Q: What is Juke Joint Festival?
A: You pay $10 for a ticket that gets you admission to about a dozen Juke Joints in Clarksdale. There is a funky bus that travels the Juke Joint circuit, so you go to a Juke Joint - drink, get on the bus, go the next Juke Joint - drink, get on the bus, go the next Juke Joint - drink, get on the bus, go the next Juke Joint, about a dozen times - all in one day! Hey, if you love the blues, this is truly an entertainment value.
Q: What is a Juke Joint?
A: Good question. The short answer is blues dive, blues joint. But the term has a rich etymology. So, I ripped off Wikipedia to give you a little history:
"Juke joint (or jook joint) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring blues music, dancing, and alcoholic drinks, primarily operated by African American people in the southeastern United States. The term "juke" is believed to derive from the Gullah word joog, meaning rowdy or disorderly.
[1] Besides the Blues, juke joints are known for improvised, often bawdy and humorous, styles of rhythmic dancing 
[2] Juke joints emerged along with new patterns of African American labor following Emancipation. Migrant workers and sharecroppers needed a place to relax and socialize following a hard week, particularly since they were barred from most white establishments by Jim Crow laws.
[3] Set up on the outskirts of town, often in ramshackle buildings or private houses, juke joints offered food, drink, dancing and gambling for weary workers. Owners made extra money selling groceries or moonshine to patrons, or providing cheap room and board.
Juke joints were not exclusively an African American or rural phenomenon. The term was used for both white and black establishments. Later, honky tonk became a more common term for a generally white establishment that emphasized music and dancing over food and socializing. In Mexican American culture, cantinas served much the same purpose.
[4] In 1934, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made the first formal attempt to describe the juke joint and its cultural role, writing that "the Negro jooks...are primitive rural counterparts of resort night clubs, where turpentine workers take their evening relaxation deep in the pine forests." Jukes figure prominently in her studies of African American folklore.
[5] Juke joints are most famous in American culture as incubators for the Delta blues. Virtually all the great early figures of blues, including 
You get the idea. By definition, a juke joint is a natural habitat for the American Tick-a-lo. Ann and I will be there for the festival - because we love the blues, but also, that evening, we’ll be having a "release party" for my son Andrew’s jazz jam-band, Groundspeak.
DELTA-JAM RECORDS RELEASE PARTY APRIL 19, 2008: I started an independent record label, 
Delta-Jam Records
149-B Delta Avenue
Clarksdale, MS 38614 (come in the side-door)
In May or June, the band will also be having a Memphis release party / gig - where they will play 
BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of April 4, 2008, the Blog roster stands at 87 Beta Pi brothers, 78 Tick-a-lo men online who have e-mail addresses.
"78 Tick-a-lo men on the streets, 24 hours a day!" Lorenzo Bozino, from The Three Stooges Meet Tony The Toe. If you have an e-mail address on a Brother - fugetaboutit!
VTL,
Larry Simons
Beta Pi, 72
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