Location:Clarksdale, Mississippi
Bedrooms:1 Property Type:Vacation Home Sleeps:2
Amenities:Air Conditioning, Coffee Maker, Lounge, Microwave, Restaurant, TV, Wireless Internet AccessActivities:Museums
Description:With more room, this shack includes a queen in the back and a single bed up front. Perfect accommodation for a group of 3 plus it has a full, half ass kitchen just in case you run out of beer and decide to cook something! this shack also comes with a well tuned piano just in case you play. The Ritz we ain't! Blues lovers making the pilgrimage to the cradle of the blues, the Mississippi Delta, should not miss the unique opportunity to experience Hopson Plantation, located only three miles from the legendary Crossroads, Highways 49 and 61, in Clarksdale. Immerse yourself in the living history you will find at Hopson. Virtually unchanged from when it was a working plantation, you will find authentic sharecropper shacks, the original cotton gin and seed houses and other outbuildings. You will glimpse plantation life as it existed only a few short years ago. In addition, you will find one of the first mechanized cotton pickers, manufactured by International Harvester, as you stroll around the compound. Spend an evening enjoying live music at Ground Zero Blues Club or Red's Lounge, on the corner of Sunflower and MLK street and then pass out in one of the renovated shotgun shacks or one of the newly renovated bins in the Cotton Gin Inn. Their corrugated tin roofs and Mississippi cypress walls will conjure visions of a bygone era. Restored only enough to accommodate 21st century expectations (indoor bathrooms, heat, air conditioning, coffee maker with condiments, refrigerators and microwave in all the units), the shacks provide comfort as well as authenticity. Travel the back roads between Highways 49 and 61 in search of Lost Superstitions and the spirits of Sam Cooke, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House and Elmore James. Head into Clarksdale and tour the Delta Blues Museum, Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art, The Ranchero, Rock n Roll Blues Heritage Museum and Hambone Art Gallery. Another favorite is the Rust Restaurant on Delta Ave. Hopson has played host to such blues performers and movie stars as Pinetop Perkins, the North Mississippi Allstars, Dwayne, Gary and Cedric Burnside, Kenny Brown, Elvis Costello, Johnny Neel, Morgan Freeman, Big Jack Johnson, Samuel J. Jackson, Super Chikan, Sam Carr, Charlie Musselwhite, Robert Plant, Mary Louise Parker, John Mayall, Ike Turner, Barefoot Workshops and Jon Gindick's Harmonica Jam Camp just to name a few. Whether you're looking for an overnight stay on your way to Memphis or Chicago or New Orleans or you need to stay longer to conduct historic blues business, and or monkey business, the Shack Up Inn will add a new dimension to your stay in the Delta. As you sit in the rocker on the porch, tipping a cold one while the sun sinks slowly to the horizon, you just might hear Pinetop Perkins radiatin' the 88's over at his shack. Perhaps, if you close your eyes even Muddy or Robert or Charlie might stop to strum a few chords in the night. To date, Shack Up Inn has hosted international TV and film crews, singer-songwriters from everywhere, various musicians who have taken advantage of the hospitality and easy living' to woodshed in preparation for recording and or touring, corporate retreats, weddings, receptions, honeymooners and divorces. The Shack Up Inn will provide you with a casual, unforgettable and unique stay while you conduct your business shack (shk) A small, crudely built cabin a shanty. intr.v. shacked, shacking, shacks To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses. The shotgun house plays a role in the folklore and culture of the south. Superstition holds that ghosts and spirits are attracted to shotgun houses because they may pass straight through them, and that some houses were built with doors intentionally misaligned to deter these spirits. They also often serve as a convenient symbol of life in the south. Elvis Presley was born in a shotgun house, the Neville Brothers grew up in one, and Robert Johnson is said to have died in one. Shortly before his death in May 1997, Jeff Buckley rented a shotgun house in Memphis and was so enamored with it he contacted the owner about the possibility of buying it. Dream Brother, David Browne's biography on Jeff and Tim Buckley, opens with a description of this shotgun house and Jeff's fondness of it.
