The Advocate

Along the Blues Highway: A drive-thru history lesson on the Mississippi Delta

Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...
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Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Locals tell the story

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done, ...
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Blues from the Delta William Ferris, Jr

The Mississippi delta region -- The origin and development of the blues -- Composition of delta blues -- Blues session -- Records and the blues tradition -- Racial repertoires siris_sil_1113346 ...
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Mississippi Delta: Returning Home to Its Haunted Past

The flat fields of the Mississippi Delta seem endless, and they can magically transport a traveler into the past. Sometimes when I’m driving through a stretch of this crescent-shaped part of northwest ...
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Blues from the Mississippi Delta [sound recording]

Blues selections by Delta bluesman Son House, obtained by Sam Charters from the Library of Congrss folksong archive. Tape 2 of 2 given to Moe Asch by Charters to produce an album of blues artist from ...