Bradfordville Blues club
Deep in the Tallahassee, Florida countryside, Bradfordville Blues Club (also known as CC’s), rekindles the blues flame and serves up a lifeline to the bygone era of southern juke joints. The club draws local and national musicians, with legends like B.B. King, Ray Charles, and Clarence Carter, performing in the cinderblock and portrait-lined space. The club’s intimacy—so elusive at modern music venues—captures audiences as they sway and twirl and dance to bluesy beats.
Deep in the Tallahassee countryside, The Joey Gilmore Band performs at the Bradfordville Blues Club, a juke joint that opened in 1964, 2015
The club’s walls are decorated with painted portraits of legends including Clarence Cater and Percy Sledge
Keyboardist Sonny Boy Williams
Dottie Kelley, the band’s featured singer
Cheap beers and great tunes keep the audience on their feet
Robert “Hi-Hat” Carter on the bass
The geographic history of juke joints stretches from Mississippi to Florida
The club’s entrance
Joey Gilmore
Dottie Kelley
Dottie Kelley