While we were scouring the list of performers at the Voodoo
Experience looking for anyone with Mississippi connections, David A. Stewart of
the Eurythmics was not someone i expected to end up speaking to. Turns out
David spent his early years listening to vinyl sent from his cousin in Memphis - learning to play guitar from the blues licks of Robert Johnson, Mississippi
John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy and others.
Following the
Eurythmics, David worked with filmmaker Robert Palmer to produce a documentary about the blues traveling from Memphis to the Delta. They called it Deep Blues and it features some amazing
live performances from greats such as R.L. Burnside right on their porches.
We asked him about his journeys with Mississippi blues and
also about innovative work he has done with the creative economy and how that
relates to work the Mississippi Arts Commission has been doing to illustrate that the arts can be a primary driver of
economic growth.
Stewart's recent book and companion iPad app, “The Business Playground: Where Creativity
and Commerce Collide” co-authored with Mark Simmons made him a particularly interesting mind to prod on this topic.
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