{"id":2669,"date":"2013-04-04T17:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2013-04-04T17:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:56:35","slug":"clarksdale-perd-frank-rat-ratliff-une-de-ses-memoires-du-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Clarksdale perd Frank \u00ab\u00a0Rat\u00a0\u00bb Ratliff, une de ses \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e9moires du blues\u00a0\u00bb &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2671\" title=\"ratliff\" src=\"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Le 28 mars, Clarksdale a perdu une de ses figures majeures du blues avec Frank \u00ab\u00a0Rat\u00a0\u00bb Ratliff, le propri\u00e9taire du fameux Riverside Hotel. Fond\u00e9 en 1944 par sa m\u00e8re, Z.L. Hill, l\u2019\u00e9tablissement de Sunflower Avenue \u00e9tait exploit\u00e9 par Ratliff depuis le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de sa cr\u00e9atrice en 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Rat\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9tait un v\u00e9ritable guide pour les milliers d&rsquo;amateurs de blues qui sont venus visiter l\u2019\u00e9tablissement au fil des ans et il partageait volontiers les anecdotes d&rsquo;anciens r\u00e9sidents tels qu\u2019Ike Turner ou Sonny Boy Williamson II. L&rsquo;une des chambres de l&rsquo;h\u00f4tel \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 Bessie Smith, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9e ici m\u00eame \u00e0 la suite d&rsquo;un accident d&rsquo;automobile en 1937 alors que le b\u00e2timent abritait encore le G.T. Thomas Afro American Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Comme nombre d\u2019endroits majeurs de l\u2019histoire du Blues, le Riverside Hotel \u00e9tait une des \u00e9tapes de la fameuse Mississippi Blues Trail et est \u00e0 ce titre signal\u00e9 par un des traditionnels \u00ab Markers \u00bb qui la jalonnent !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2673\" title=\"ratliff2\" src=\"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/franceblues.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ratliff2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLe prochain Juke Joint Festival de Clarksdale sera d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Frank Ratcliff et \u00e0 toutes les autres figures locales du blues disparues dans l\u2019ann\u00e9e \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msbluestrail.org\/\">http:\/\/www.msbluestrail.org\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DGttzP41Yw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 28 mars, Clarksdale a perdu une de ses figures majeures du blues avec Frank \u00ab\u00a0Rat\u00a0\u00bb Ratliff, le propri\u00e9taire du fameux Riverside Hotel. Fond\u00e9 en 1944 par sa m\u00e8re, Z.L. Hill, l\u2019\u00e9tablissement de Sunflower Avenue \u00e9tait exploit\u00e9 par Ratliff depuis le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de sa cr\u00e9atrice en 1997. \u00ab\u00a0Rat\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9tait un v\u00e9ritable guide pour les milliers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-les-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franceblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}