Abe's Bar-B-Q -- Clarksdale MS
N 34° 11.688 W 090° 33.806
15S E 724521 N 3786439
Abe's, in business since 1924, is a classic barbeque joint that also serves up famous Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales "at the Crossroads" in Clarksdale MS
Waymark Code: WMWYFC
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2017
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Abe's is just one of the famous Mississippi things to visit here -- the other is "The Crossroads" of US Highways 49 and 61, where early blues guitarist Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for the ability to play the blues. See: (
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Right next to those Crossroads, Abe's Bar-B-Q started smoking in 1924. In 1924 Robert Johnson could have gotten a sandwich here, but he would have had to get it at the back, since he dining room (as in all of MS) was for white customers only.
In 2017, folks of all colors have been welcome inside for decades.
Blasterz went about 50 miles aout of their way to try the baby back pork ribs and Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales here - and we are very glad we did! Mama Blaster has been converted - these Delta tamales are AMAZING!
From the Abe's website: (
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"Abraham Davis founded his first business in 1924 named Bungalow-Inn, located on Fourth Street; now called Martin Luther King Boulevard, where his excellent Bar-B-Q reputation spread across North Mississippi and Mid-South. The business moved to the crossroads of U.S. 49 & 61 where legend has it that the Delta blues king, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil and the blues was born. It’s very possible that Robert Johnson, while sitting on a Coca-Cola case under one of the sycamore trees that was prominent at that corner back then, eating an Abe’s Bar-B-Q made that legendary deal. It is a fact that Abraham Davis surrendered his soul to eat lunch, and coined the words to Abe’s famous sauce, THE COME BACK SAUCE: Once you’ve eaten our sandwich, you have to come back for more. In 1960 the business was renamed Abe’s Bar-B-Q, horning Abe Davis, its founder."