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Cotton Gin Inn
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Blues lovers making the pilgrimage to the
cradle of the blues, the Mississippi Delta, should not miss the unique
opportunity to experience
Hopson Plantation, located only four miles from the
legendary Crossroads, Highways 49 and 61, in Clarksdale. Immerse yourself
in the living history you will find at Hopson. Virtually unchanged from
when it was a working plantation, you will find authentic sharecropper
shacks, the original cotton gin and seed houses and other outbuildings. You
will glimpse plantation life as it existed only a few short years ago. In
addition, you will find one of the first mechanized cotton pickers,
manufactured by International Harvester, as you stroll around the compound.
Spend an evening enjoying live music at
Ground Zero Blues Club
or
Red's Lounge, on the corner
of Sunflower and MLK street and then go to sleep in one of
the renovated shotgun shacks or one of the newly renovated bins in the
Cotton Gin
Inn. Their
corrugated tin roofs and Mississippi cypress walls will conjure visions of
a bygone era. Restored only enough to accommodate 21st century expectations
(indoor plumbing, showers, heat, air conditioning
and fully equipped kitchens in some, kitchenettes in others), the
shacks provide comfort as well as authenticity.
Travel the back roads between Highways 49 and 61 in search of
the spirits of Sam
Cooke, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son
House and Elmore James. Head into Clarksdale and tour the
Delta Blues Museum.
Hopson has played host to such blues performers and
movie stars as Pinetop Perkins, the North Mississippi Allstars,
Dwayne, Gary and Cedric Burnside,
Kenny Brown, Elvis Costello,
Johnny Neel, Morgan Freeman, Big Jack Johnson, Jimbo
Mathus, Samuel J. Jackson, Super Chikan, Sam Carr, Charlie
Musselwhite, Robert Plant, John Mayall, Joey Adams, Ike Turner and Bob
Margolin just to name a few.
Whether you're looking for an overnight stay on your way to Memphis or
Chicago or New Orleans or you need to stay longer
to conduct historic blues business, and or monkey
business, the
Shack
Up
Inn will add a new
dimension to your stay in the Delta. As you sit in the rocker on the porch,
tipping a cold one while the sun sinks slowly to the horizon, you just
might hear Pinetop Perkins radiatin' the 88's over at the Commissary.
Perhaps, if you close your eyes even Muddy or Robert or
Charlie might stop to strum a few chords in the night.
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Shack Up Inn -Cotton Gin
Inn
001 Commissary Circle
Clarksdale, MS 38614
(662) 624-8329
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