"Sam Cooke's music and life will take center stage this weekend in Clarksdale. The Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival pays tribute to Cooke, beginning Friday. The weekend event includes an unveiling of a blues marker at the Roxy Theater and roundtable discussion on Cooke's life at the Ground Zero blues club. Many of the local performers at the festival will sing at least one of Cooke's hits, whether it's from his early gospel career with the Soul Stirrers or from his repertoire of pop music, including the mainstays "You Send Me" and "A Change is Gonna Come." Cooke was a Clarksdale native."
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