Delta Music Institute

Ponderosa Stomp – Brand Film from The Butler Bros on Vimeo. This is a Butler Bros Brand Film Production. The Ponderosa Stomp is a cultural warehouse. A rock-and-roll defibrillator. A creaky wooden ship helmed by Ira Padnos (Dr. Ike) that sails through the seas of music history and smashes cannon balls through the cliches of [...]

To all the Friends of Thacker Mountain Radio: As many of you may already know, we lost one of the most integral (and joyous) members of our radio show family on August 15 with the passing of our beloved Jim Dickinson. Jim was the piano player in the Yalobushwhackers, our house band, but more than [...]

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1165 Jerome “Top Notch” Williams, a DMI student from Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the featured focus of a new book, Let The World Listen Right, written by author Ali Neff and published by University Press of Mississippi. Let the World Listen Right draws from classic studies of the blues as well as extensive ethnographic work to [...]

Here’s a great feature by MPB’s Ron Brown about the first Rolling Stones band…from Mississippi! http://www.mpbonline.org/content/mississippis-rolling-stone-rock-history

Electroacoustic Juke Joint Call for Scores, USA August 4th 2009 in Call of Works Call for Works The Delta Music Institute at Delta State University is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the 3rd Annual Electroacoustic Juke Joint, a three-day festival of electronic music and art, to be held November 12-14, 2009 at [...]

Three-time Grammy™ winner Ashley Cleveland has a new CD out called “God Don’t Never Change,” and she is making a free mp3 download available of the Fred McDowell blues hit, “You Gotta Move.” Ashley, who is a Friend of DMI, visited the Delta year before last and rehearsed with our Ol’ Skool Revue band then [...]

Here’s a link to an important article about recent copyright infringement by a Boston University student… http://usat.me/?35815602