BLUES, BOOZE, & BBQ
Exhibit @ Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS
March 4, 2010 through August 2010
Exhibit Houston Photo Fest
Mixed Emotions
95 tuam - Houston, Texas
March 25 to May 15
Blues, Booze & BBQ
Photographs by: Michael Loyd Young
Foreword by: David Alan Harvey
My selection as this years winner,BLUES, BOOZE AND BBQ, by Michael Lloyd
Young, is an example of a book that combines the past and present of the
lively heritage of good times as seen the food, music and drink of the
region. Young's book shows the multi-dimensional quality of a music culture
that survives in juke joints, roadhouses and festivals that cuts across the
lines of age and race, all- the -while demonstrating that the blues
represents an ongoing living tradition in Mississippi. His color photographs
capture both quiet behind -the- scenes moments and the lively infectious
vitality of the music and audiences that have come to make the blues a
modern timeless American music, one that will forever be deeply rooted in
the soil of Mississippi.
David Houston
Co-Director and Chief Curator
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
University of New Orleans
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