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That Saturday, this amazing guitarist named Robert "Bilbo" Walker played a matinee set there, and boy, talk about a showman! This guy duckwalked halfway around the room, played solos behind his back and was dressed finer than cat hair. Anyone who wears a wig and lamé is going to have my attention, especially if he's black, male, middle-aged and duckwalks. I'm telling you, folks put on a show out there — later on Saturday, Othar Turner's Fife and Drum Band marched through the door in military style to take the stage.

This trip lasted through my twenty-first birthday, and even included a visit to the Hollywood Casino, in Tunica, MS. You drive down the highway south from Memphis into some rural Delta country and the all of a sudden, these huge neon casinos pop up out of the blackness. Considering that the Mid-South is such an affluent part of the country, I'm not surprised that these folks choose to blow their "disposable" income on house odds and quarter slots. Honestly, we were the youngest folks by about forty

Junior Kimbrough at Dixie Fried 3.
[Photo: Junior Kimbrough performing on guitar]

Othar Turner's Fife and Drum Band at Dixie Fried 3.
[Photo: Othar Turner and band performing]