Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, MS., in biz since 1944.
It was the 4th Marker place on the
Mississippi Blues Trail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail
This was the housing choice for such Blues greats as
Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Robert
Nighthawk and where Ike Turner wrote and
rehersed "Rocket 88".
http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_88

This is also where Bessie Smith died in 1937 after
a fatal car accident on Hwy. 61 (then known as the
G.T. Thomas Hospital).
We met the proprietor "RAT" who invited us to
come for a tour of the Hotel and hear all his
wonderful stories, but when we got there he was asleep in his room.