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10 Releases and Counting: Broke & Hungry Records Celebrates Four Years Of Raucous Delta Blues

(ST. LOUIS) – In October 2005, blues fan Jeff Konkel sat in a juke joint in rural Mississippi, lamenting the fact that so many of the region’s most compelling blues artists were unknown outside of the Delta. Over the course of the evening – and an untold number of beers – an idea began to take root. By the following month the hangover was long gone, but the idea had become a reality: Broke & Hu… Continue

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, the rural Mississippi bluesman who burst onto the international blues scene in 2006, returns this fall with AIN'T IT LONESOME, his latest CD for Broke & Hungry Records. Holmes will celebrate the CD's release with a performance on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Red's Lounge in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Holmes will perform from 8 to 10 p.m.

The CD release party will take place as thousands of blues lovers converge on the Delta for the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival held in ne… Continue

Our film M FOR MISSISSIPPI: A ROAD TRIP THROUGH THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BLUES will screen at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

I'll be attending the screening with two of my fellow filmmakers Roger Stolle and Kari Jones. We'll do a Q&A and a meet and greet afterward.

If any of you live near the Gulf Coast, we hope you will consider coming out to join us! Thanks!

Cheers,
Jeff Konkel
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Broke & Hungry Records is now taking pre-orders for AIN'T IT LONESOME, the latest CD by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, one of the most celebrated rural blues artists of the new millennium.

Customers who order the new CD by September 29 will receive a FREE bonus mp3 e-mailed directly to their inbox as well as a FREE Broke & Hungry Records bumper sticker mailed with their CD order. Orders may be placed at the Broke & Hungry Records web store at http://www.brokeandhungryrecords.com.

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(CLARKSDALE, MS) – The award-winning blues film M For Mississippi has just earned two more prestigious prizes. The film has received “DVD of the Year” honors in both the Readers’ Choice and Critics’ Choice categories of the Living Blues Awards.

The movie was nominated alongside such esteemed films as And This Is Free: The Life and Times of Chicago’s Legendary Maxwell Street; Rev. Gary Davis – The Video Collection; Daddy Mack Orr – Plain Man Blues; and John Jackson… Continue