lesson, i m meeting up with blues legend. you have probably seen clarksdale change a lot. what was this like? shoulder bumping on both sides of the street. so many people out here. all of the shops were open. it was a town that was alive, went to sleep. woke back up again. what do you think is keeping it afloat, keeping it going? the blues. the blues. if you got the blues you can make it through anything. now, restaurants, record stores and blues museums are trickling in and the tourists including me are lining up. did you get it? awesome, lady. when super chicken isn t on the road, he is home often jamming at the blues club which opened in 2001. uppest west side manhattan new york. it s owned by the mayor and morgan freeman. this business was one of the first to spark the town s economic rebirth. i m on the clarksdale revitalization board and our
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that s right. i think we ll hear a lot more in the coming days and months. mark, thanks so much. we re going to have the next political up dmat an hour and reminder for latest political news, go to cnnpolitics.com. first, flashback. september 16th, 1925. blues legend was born on the mississippi delta. of course, that would be the iconic blues ban b.b. king. the song the thrill is gone among the best. the spans 50 years and still performing at 85. happy birthday, b.b. i know, change is hard. you never considered making bluetooth, remote keyless entry and turn-by-turn navigation available in every model. so it must be hard for you to hear autoweek.com say our interior raises the small-car bar. if you want to talk about it, call me. that is you know when you get home.
contenders growing today. former maryland governor martin o mally now in the running. he spoke to hundreds of supporters this morning in baltimore. he launched his political career there, first serving as a councilman at age 28. he spoke about more opportunities for all americans and promised to be a leader for new generations. he joins two other democratic candidates hillary clinton and bernie sanders. thousands flocking to mississippi to pay their respects to blues legend bb king. king died in las vegas may 14th at the age of 89. at his request, his body was returned to his native mississippi for a final homecoming. it was there he rose from share cropper. leading the funeral procession was the black bodied gibson