Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale)
- Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale)
Riverside Hotel, located at 615 Sunflower Avenue, is a historic hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi in operation since 1944. It was the fourth marker place on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk, it was also where Bessie Smith died in 1937 after her fatal car accident on Highway 61 (then known as the G.T. Thomas Hospital). [cite web
url=http://www.atlantamagazine.com/uploadedFiles/Atlanta/Travel/November07%20Travel.pdf
title=Great Souther Getaways - Mississippi
publisher=www.atlantamagazine.com
accessdate=2008-05-31
last=Cloues
first=Kacey] [cite web
url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07025/756420-37.stm
title=Historical marker placed on Mississippi Blues Trail
publisher=Associated Press
accessdate=2007-02-09] Ike Turner wrote and rehearsed his song "Rocket 88" here. [cite web
url=http://www.howlinwolf.com/mark/places/riverside/riverside_hotel.htm
title=Riverside Hotel
publisher=
accessdate=2007-02-09] Robert Nighthawk left his suitcase in his room there just before he died. [cite web
url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/sites/clarksdale_sites.htm
title=Clarksdate sites
publisher=
accessdate=2007-02-09]
The Riverside Hotel is just one of many historical blues sites in Clarksdale. [cite web
url=http://www.roadfan.com/clark2.html
title=Clarkesdale Blues
publisher=
accessdate=2007-02-09]
Notes
ee also
*Delta Blues Museum
*Mississippi Blues Trail
External links
* [http://www.cathead.biz/riverside.html Riverside Hotel Website]
* [http://www.howlinwolf.com/mark/places/riverside/riverside_hotel.htm Photo]
* [http://www.roadfan.com/clark2.html Clarksdale Blues - famous blues sites in Clarksdale]
* [http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=riverside+hotel&near=Clarksdale,+MS&radius=0.0&latlng=34200000,-90570833,9771500600849173767&sa=X&oi=local&ct=authority Google map]
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