Clover Street / Blues Alley 3
(3/5/2023, #22)
We're going to finish up our tour of Blues Alley with this post, focusing on the north side of Clover Street from Henry to Crowdus streets.
We're starting at the intersection of Clover and Henry streets. The Stack building looms overhead, and at ground level there are murals all along the north side of this stretch.
Starting off, Dan Colcer depicts Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, followed by Teal Suns (@tealsuns) work portraying Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Willie Johnson.
Next is "Life by the Drop", a portrait of the Vaughan brothers by Ryan Stalsby (@ryan_stalsby_art)
Follow the music (the song is "Deep Elm Blues"), and you'll see next the trio of T-Bone Walker, Jimi Hendrix, and Leon Bridges by Alfredo Pena (@1amthewalrus).
Keep going. The next work, "Big Night Blues", is based on a song by Blind Lemon Jefferson and was painted by Hatziel Flores (@hatziel). "Texas Cannon Ball, a Tribute to Freddie King" by Alec DeJesus is next, and is followed by a fanciful work about blues evolution by Ebony Lewis.
The wonderful geometric mural around the overhead doors here is, I think, by Jody Aderhold (link).
"Jam Session" by @joeskilz52, @albarez, and @hatziel lines three walls of this space and represents Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones with three other musicians. I love the depiction of light from wall fixtures in complementary colors!
Isaac Davis (@izkdavies) did this portrait of N'Dambi and the kaleidoscopic design surround.
After N'Dambi, we are back at the intersection of Clover and Crowdus. This should look familiar!
With this and the previous two posts, we've covered all of Clover Street including Blues Alley. We're getting close to finishing our original goal in the Month of Sundays project - in the next post we'll cover Canton Street from Good-Latimer to Exposition, and then figure out where to go from there!
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