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Roger Stolle

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Name: Roger Stolle
City/Place: Clarksdale, Mississippi
Country: United States
Location & Map: 252 Delta Avenue, Clarksdale, MS 38614 [open map]

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What's Up? “My mission is to organize and promote the blues from within.”

Life & Work

Bio: After a successful 13-year advertising/marketing career in Corporate America, "Mad Man" Roger Stolle moved to Clarksdale in 2002 with a mission to "organize and promote the blues from within." He owns Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art ("Mississippi's Blues Store"), co-founded multiple festivals (Juke Joint Festival, Clarksdale Film Festival, Clarksdale Caravan Music Fest, Cat Head Mini Blues Fest, etc.), writes for Blues Music Magazine and Poland's Twój Blues magazine, is a contributing editor to Delta Magazine, authored "Hidden History of Mississippi Blues" and "Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential" (History Press/Arcadia), has contributed to blues radio shows (XRDS.fm, Sirius-XM BB King's Bluesville, WROX, KDHX) and co-produced award-winning films like Hard Times, M for Mississippi and We Juke Up in Here.

He is co-creator (with Jeff Konkel, Broke & Hungry Records) of the web series Moonshine & Mojo Hands. He produced three acclaimed albums on Big George Brock and has assisted other blues record labels. He's also toured Mississippi bluesmen to at least 8 foreign countries. Mississippi Book Festival panelist (2016, 2019).

Stolle has received a Blues Music Award (Blues Foundation), Keeping the Blues Alive Award ("Retail" category), Early Wright Blues Heritage Award (Sunflower River Blues Assoc.) and Small Business of the Year (Clarksdale Chamber of Commerce). His Cat Head store was called “one of the 17 coolest record stores in America” (Paste mag), is included in the book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (Workman Publishing), and is listed in Lonely Planet, Blues Traveling and other travel guides.

An authority on Delta blues and tourism, Stolle is a frequent speaker at events and has been quoted by The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, PBS Newshour, NPR and Travel+Leisure.

He is current president of Clarksdale/Coahoma County Tourism Commission plus a present or past board member with non-profit organizations including Clarksdale Downtown Development Association, Rock & Blues Museum and Clarksdale Revitalization Inc.; Black Prairie Blues Museum (advisory board). He was also a Mississippi Arts Commission 2020 Folk Arts panelist. Stolle graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1989 (English Literature/Journalism).

Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store is open 7 days a week at 252 Delta Avenue in historic Clarksdale, Mississippi — 662-624-5992, www.cathead.biz. Stolle can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Other affiliated web sites include www.mformississippi.com, www.wejukeupinhere.com, www.moonshineandmojohands.com and www.jukejointfestival.com.

Contact Information

Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +1 662 624-5992

Media | Markets

▶ Buy My Music: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://www.cathead.biz/cds-dvds
▶ Buy My Vinyl: http://www.cathead.biz/music-video
▶ Buy My Merch: http://www.cathead.biz/cat-head-logo-gear
▶ Buy My Merch 2: http://www.cathead.biz/hats-and-gifts
▶ Book Purchases: http://www.cathead.biz/books-art
▶ Instagram: rogerstolle
▶ Website: http://www.cathead.biz
▶ Website 2: http://www.mformississippi.com

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With the Juke Joint Festival, a Mississippi city aims to lose its economic blues
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Documentary about Clarksdale with Charlie Musselwhite
By Roger Stolle

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With the Juke Joint Festival, a Mississippi city aims to lose its economic blues
In Mississippi’s Clarksdale, the heart of the rural Delta, a celebration of the blues has been drawing thousands of fans to the area for the past 16 years. The Juke Joint Festival, named for bars and informal music venues scattered throughout the African ...
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Documentary about Clarksdale with Charlie Musselwhite
CLARKSDALE! "It Is What It Is and The Sun Never Sets On Cool," - wise words from Redd Paden. See this unique place through the eyes of music legend and multiple Grammy Award Winner Charlie Musselwhite and Chilly Billy Howell (formerly Poor William) of...
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