BESSEMER, Alabama -- Gip's Place can stay in business, city officials said -- as long at the Bessemer blues juke joint doesn't operate as a business. Or to put it another way, Henry "Gip" Gipson's now ...
This pilgrimage site for blues-loving musicians may well be the last juke joint in the United States. Chuck Berry once gave its owner a guitar, and Keith Richards has played there unannounced. So too ...