A more permanent structure than most ephemeral juke joints, this simple front-gabled structure launched the career of Indianola’s native son B. B. King and hosted many jazz and blues musicians, including Count Basie and Albert King. Beginning in 1977, the board-and-batten front room expanded with corrugated-metal additions: a small room on the front, and four rooms at the rear.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CLUB EBONY", [Indianola, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR64.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 137-137.
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