"Every lyric is a true story." Here's a snippet of the Parchman Band's conversation about Blues on "The Farm" before they took the stage here. They spoke and sang of sin and addiction, faith and redemption, our past and future... and hope. Our stage was a scale used to weigh the harvest outside the historic Hopson commissary, where they harvested the first successfully mechanized cotton crop in 1944. It was our first Blues Country Harvest event, and the band's 5th time performing in public...

Thanks to everyone who made our first Blues Country Harvest so bountiful. It feels like a while since we regularly streamed #LiveFromClarksdale to keep the blues alive here... So it's been a fun surprise to see our stream of the Parchman Band's performance go 'viral' at a quarter-million view in a day -- and counting! We founded this to create conversation and a positive impact in our small Delta towns. We believe blues festivals can be more than entertainment. They're an economic engine:...

Clarksdale Press-Register, October 16, 2025 Celebrating harvest October is a month of harvest festivals across the country.  It seems we celebrate the harvest everywhere except here -- where we're busy harvesting. As we planned this first, small "Harvest Party" some locals scoffed at the timing.  Farmers are too busy on their combines and cotton pickers to come, they said! Yet farm families need something to do, while their breadwinners work long days in the field.  They partake in Sabbath to...