Clover Street / Blues Alley 2

(02/27/2023, #21)

Ready for the second post about Blues Alley?

Our first post ended on the east side of the intersection of Clover and Crowdus. Now we're going to take a walk to the west, working down the back side of The Factory in Deep Ellum.

The loading dock at the Factory is framed by two murals.

Leftmost is "Shawn James: The Thief and the Moon" by Joe Iurato (@joeiurato) and on the right is a depiction of Albert Collins by Nick Anderson (@nickpaintsthis), which spills over the wall into a maintenance area.

Keep going east - past the maintenance area is this depiction of Willard Robison by Steve Hunter (@hunter_creates_murals).

Next is "Deeper than Ellum, A tribute to Lonnie Johnson" (link) by @dtoxart (Jerod Davies).

If you look closely at the two prior murals, you'll notice what look like speaker wires running along the bottom of both. Follow the wires to a couple of speakers (courtesy of Dan Colcer) and you'll see Mance Lipscomb by Daniel I. Yanez (@artistdiy).

Follow the wires! Up next is another work by Steve Hunter depicting Buddy Guy.

The wires end in a plug at “The Blues Man of Elmo, Texas”, Henry Qualls. This work is by Selena Mize (@selenammize).

Music flows from the lines into this work by Martell Holloway (@artbyMartell), who painted Whistlin' Alex Moore.

Following a blank blue area (blank no longer - see update at end of post) is a dual portrait of Bessie Smith and Erykah Badu by Dan Colcer (@dcolcerart), which segues into an abstract saxophonist as the end piece by Dora Zeneth Reynosa (@ByZeneth).

Finally, we come to these coneflowers by Mari Pohlman and a sunset view of Elm Street by Ryan Stalsby that we saw in a previous post.

That's just the south side of the street in this block of Clover - just across the alley is the Stack, which has murals all along its base. We'll finish up Blues Alley in the next post - but we have one more thing to share this week.

Technically, Clover Street ends right here, at the intersection with Henry Street, BUT... just across Henry, there's an alley that continues toward the freeway, and if you look down the alley, you'll see a celebration of Jack Ruby and the Carousel Club that we noted previously.

That's it for this post. We'll finish up Blues Alley next time - getting close to achieving our goal of the Month of Sundays project.

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(March 2023 Update) The blank blue area we saw in our earlier walk was recently updated by this cool cat by Greg Contestabile (@ozone_ue_skp).