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Permalink Reply by mojoatomic on August 11, 2014 at 4:14am

Ryan Perry and the Homemade Jamz Blues Band - watch out for this brother's and sister Trio - they are incredible. 

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 11, 2014 at 11:39pm

Awesome vid and pics Mojoatomic! Thanks for sharing. Looks like there was a great crowd there too!

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Permalink Reply by mojoatomic on August 12, 2014 at 4:37am

It really was a pretty good crowd, and they stayed late into the night.

It's weird that the Sunflower fest doesn't get more press than it does... it where the blues began :-) The crossroads that everyone sings about are around the corner from this stage and and every Delta bluesman who ever was came through here on the train, by car on on foot.

Robert Johnson's song "Love in Vain" where he says "And I followed her to the station, with her suitcase in my hand," is right, and I mean right behind and in the view of this stage. 

You could smell the ribs cooking on the front porch of Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues club, and half of the players left the stage after their sets and went to Red's around the corner and absolutely tore it up until the wee hours. 

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 13, 2014 at 4:11pm

AWESOM! The history of the place alone makes me want to get there.

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Permalink Reply by mojoatomic on August 14, 2014 at 5:57am

Yeah, it's alot of fun. Goin' back this weekend :-) 

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