Dave Stewart at Voodoo Experience 2012 with Mississippi Happening – Video

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Dave Stewart at Voodoo Experience 2012 with Mississippi Happening
While we were scouring the list of performers at the Voodoo Experience looking for anyone with Mississippi connections, David A. Stewart of the Eurythmics was not someone i expected to end up speaking to. Turns out David spent his early years listening to vinyl sent from his cousin in Memphis, learning to play the guitar from the blues licks of Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy and others. After the dissolution of the Eurythmics, David worked with filmmaker Robert Palmer to produce a tour of the blues from Memphis to the Delta called Deep Blues which features some amazing live performances from greats such as RL Burnside right on their porches. We asked him about his journeys with Mississippi blues and also about innovative work he has done with the creative economy and how that relates to work that the Mississippi Arts Commission has been doing to convince our government and business sector that the arts can be a primary driver of economic growth. His recent book, "The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide" co-authored with Mark Simmons and accompanying iPad app made him a particularly interesting mind to prod on this topic. http://www.mississippihappening.comFrom:mississippihappeningViews:1 0ratingsTime:11:24More inMusic

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