Luckett a VIP at the Helena blues festival
But there were other sounds of note that were not strictly musical — things political, environmental, educational, economic.
In attendance at the VIP party, into which I ventured by knowing somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody, was a large and oddly engaging man of silver hair who, they told me, conceivably could be the next governor of Mississippi.
This was Bill Luckett, highly successful business and trial lawyer from Clarksdale, the legendary “crossroads” of the Delta blues, just down the road over the river.
Luckett is now perhaps best known as the partner of actor Morgan Freeman in that upscale restaurant, Madidi, and adjoining blues club, Ground Zero, in a restored historic building in Clarksdale.
Luckett is a progressive Democrat and racial reconciler who thinks he might be the guy to lead Mississippi after Haley Barbour is term-limited at the end of 2011. Some Arkansas folks have befriended Luckett through acquaintances made at his restaurant and they will put on a fund-raiser for his political action committee in Little Rock in a few weeks.
Arkansas News
10/12/9
