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Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale)
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Riverside Hotel, located at 615 Sunflower Avenue, is an 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).[1] Ike Turner wrote and rehearsed his song "Rocket 88" here.[2] Robert Nighthawk left his suitcase in his room there just before he died.[3]
The Riverside Hotel is just one of many historical blues sites in Clarksdate.[4]
- ^ Historical marker placed on Mississippi Blues Trail. Associated Press. Retrieved on 2007-02-09.
- ^ Riverside Hotel. Retrieved on 2007-02-09.
- ^ Clarksdate sites. Retrieved on 2007-02-09.
- ^ Clarkesdale Blues. Retrieved on 2007-02-09.
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