Private Driving Tours Through the History, Culture and Backroads of the Mississippi Delta

Story-driven journeys through the history, music, and lived experience of the Mississippi Delta led personally by Chilly Billy Howell.

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Delta Bohemian Tours has earned the TripAdvisor® Travelers’ Choice Award for six consecutive years, placing it among the top 10% of experiences worldwide.

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Your Guide to the Mississippi Delta

Chilly Billy Howell at his beloved Moon Lake in the Mississippi Delta.

Chilly Billy Howell guiding Delta Bohemian Tours through the Mississippi Delta

Chilly Billy Howell leading Delta Bohemian Tours through the Mississippi Delta.

What Makes Delta Bohemian Tours Different

Delta Bohemian Tours offers thoughtful journeys through the history, culture, and landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, guided by Clarksdale native Chilly Billy Howell. Each tour blends storytelling, regional insight, and lived experience.

Visitors explore more than places. They encounter the deeper stories that have shaped the Delta—its music, its people, its faith, and the crossroads where history and memory meet.

Your Source for Private, Regional Identity Tours in the Mississippi Delta

Chilly Billy Howell
Native Clarksdale and Coahoma County Storyteller
and Your Mississippi Delta Tour Guide

Clarksdale native and Delta Bohemian Tours docent Chilly Billy Howell provides premium, private, personal, often serendipitous regional-identity tours through the Mississippi Delta—the birthplace of the Blues. His tours are relational, authentic, and organic, focusing on the character-driven stories that shape this unique region while offering visitors a deeper understanding of the land, its people, and its creative culture.

Those seeking a deeper sense of place and a more mindful experience of what many call the “Most Southern Place on Earth” will find these journeys eclectic and immersive. Tours explore the Delta’s agricultural, musical, historical, and cultural landscape while revealing the stories that continue to shape life in the Mississippi Delta today.

Tours are available by advance reservation.

Schedule Your Private Delta Tour

Contact Chilly Billy Howell to plan your driving tour.

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About the Tours

The Extended Regional-Identity Tour lasts approximately three hours and includes either pickup at the Shack Up Inn or a visit to Hopson Plantation and the Shack Up Inn. Guests staying elsewhere often meet at Abe’s BBQ at the celebrated Crossroads in Clarksdale.

Those interested in a customized or farther-reaching tour are welcome to contact Chilly Billy at chillybilly@deltabohemian.com to arrange a brief conversation about possibilities.

Chilly Billy introduces guests to the Delta’s blues clubs, music venues, restaurants, historic sites, and cultural landmarks while sharing the deeper stories that make the region unique. 

The Mississippi Delta is not just a place to see—it is a place to understand.

This isn’t Disney—it’s more like the Galápagos of the Deep South.

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What Guests Are Saying

“Billy’s tour left us with a much deeper knowledge and feel for the Delta. Three hours flew by as we explored Clarksdale, the levee system, and the Mississippi River. Relational is just about right. We experienced the past and present of the Delta—and we are still talking about it today. Billy is an exceptional guide and a cool cat.”

— TripAdvisor Guest Review

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Explore more stories from the Mississippi Delta — Visit The Delta Bohemian

Exploring the Mississippi Delta with Chilly Billy

Along levee roads, through cotton country, and into the quiet places where the Mississippi Delta still tells its stories.

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Chilly Billy with 2 Touristas near the Mississippi River
Two men standing next to a blue sign.
Chilly Billy Howell with a Tourista on a Delta Bohemian Tour
A man standing next to a red jeep.
Chilly Billy Howell with his Delta Bohemian Tours Jeep

From the Delta: Reflections from the Crossroads

Reflections on faith, paradox, and the choices that shape a life in the Mississippi Delta.

The aphorisms and poems of Malachi Montroy by Chilly Billy Howell.

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