Live Entertainment in Clarksdale

Ground Zero Blues Club (co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman) is located at the legendary Crossroads in Clarksdale — the site where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil to master the guitar and where the entire tradition of American blues music began. The Mississippi Delta's extraordinary position as the birthplace of the blues, rock and roll, and by extension all modern popular music makes Clarksdale the most historically significant music location in American cultural history.

The Crossroads of Clarksdale, Mississippi is the most mythologically significant music location on Earth — the highway junction (US 61 and US 49) where Robert Johnson's Faustian bargain with the devil became the founding myth of American blues. This sacred site in the Mississippi Delta, where cotton fields stretch to the horizon and the humidity creates an almost tropical intensity, captures the cultural landscape that produced the greatest American musical tradition.