05-02-2017, 03:05 PM
Mississippi is all about the blues to me. Yes, the racial violence and segregation is a terrible part of American history. I would never visit Money, MS, where Emmit Till was murdered for instance.
But the blues markers, genuine Delta blues is vanishing from our culture. There almost no juke joints left, just the Po Monkey out in a corn field. I want to see the Crossroads, where Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil so he would teach him the blues!
But the blues markers, genuine Delta blues is vanishing from our culture. There almost no juke joints left, just the Po Monkey out in a corn field. I want to see the Crossroads, where Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil so he would teach him the blues!
“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." -John Muir