My Week As A Tortured Soul Day 10 - Tall City Blues Fest Day 2

Day 2 of The Tall City Blues Fest began early...the show was on at 11am CDT and I had to set up my equipment once again.

The entire day was L-O-N-G, as it didn't end until about 2am CDT when I finally had to leave the Midnight Troubadours event in the basement of The Doubletree Hotel....but it was an awesome day...

Music was fantastic all day, it went off without any major delays and I think we ended the main stage 10 minutes later than planned.

First I will share the show podcast and then some pictures from the stages all day.

More pictures coming in a post that will appear on Wednesday!

My Week As A Tortured Soul Day 8 - Houston Night

After the wonderful morning, we went back to our hosts home and relaxed for a few hours before heading back intoHouston for a performance at The Shakespeare Pub.

Kyle & Tiffany, the owners and Jason the manager treated the band right with some good food before hand and the Houston Blues Society represented well with a nice size crowd.

My Week As A Tortured Soul Day 6 - Clarksdale, MS

We left Indianola and headed to Clarksdale and arrived at the Riverside Hotel... HISTORIC!

So many people have stayed or visited here from Muddy t Ike Turner (Rocket 88, was penned here), Sam Cooke, The Blind Boys Of Alabama and is the hospital (which it was originally) where Bessie Smith passed after her car accident.

We were given a tour by Z, the granddaughter of the woman who purchased the propert in the 40's...she is third generation owner of the establishment - her father Ratt, who passed last year.

As her father did for years, Z gave us a tour of the rooms and explained who stayed in which room.. so very cool.

My Week As A Tortured Soul Day 2 - Oxford Blues Fest Day 2

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SO, the rain forced Day 2 of the Oxford Blues Fest inside and the cool owners of The Corner Bar (Hudson & His Partner...forgot his dang name!) were cool enough to let the Fest use their bar.

Deal was, the music had to stop by 9:30pm, because they had an EDM (electronic dance music) DJ coming in for the younger crowd...but things don't always end up as planned...now do they???