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Well, folks, after all the hoopla surrounding the Blues marker, it's business as usual here at Malaco...sort of!

We've had quite a few out-of-town visitors lately. The week of March 30 - April 4, Nicolas Teurnier and Julien Crué from Soul Bag Magazine were in town to visit, interview and witness the Jackson. MS experience. It was great getting to know them (and put a face with the name). They were able to get interviews with Marvin Sease, Floyd Taylor, George Jackson, Tommy and Wolf, to name a few...

We visited "Peaches" on Farish Street for lunch one day where we had some soul food and then the other nights we got other local Southern cuisine (aka fried catfish and coleslaw).

They are great guys! We already miss "The Pièrres."

Julien recently let me know that there is a Bobby "Blue" Bland interview in the current MOJO Magazine. So if you haven't seen it yet, buy a copy!

Friday, May 2, the staff here was excited to see a couple of tourists stop and take pictures of the Marker. We gawked at them through the windows of the lobby and then invited them in for a look around. After all, Mississippi is the mecca of Southern Hospitality!

Paul and Sue are from Manchester and were touring the area, going to Jazz Fest in New Orleans, then off on the blues trail to Clarksdale, Memphis and Atlanta. We hope they have safe travels back home!

Peter Tladi from Bula Records in South Africa was here for a brief visit as well. Bula has been releasing a lot of our master recordings (mostly Gospel) in South Africa for the past few years and they have been quite popular.

We have the new Soul Stirrers album in the works and are very hopeful about its release (which has yet to be determined).

That's all I can think of right now. There will be more soon, no doubt!