Hard time leads to hard blues. That’s the story behind Mark "Mule Man" Massey performing 9 p.m. May 23 in the Center for Southern Folklore Store, 123 S. Main @ Peabody Place Trolley Stop.
Growing up in the cradle of the Delta blues, Clarksdale, MS, Mark Massey heard plenty of blues. But it took a stretch in Parchman Prison for Mark to discover the blues’ deeper meaning. Upon his release, Mark was determined to turn his negative experience into a positive. In the early 1990s, he began his career as a blues guitarist and singer playing every dive and juke joint he could in northern Mississippi. Eventually he honed his skills well enough to play in the International Blues Competition as well as the better clubs like B.B. King’s on Beale Street and Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero.
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