Mississippi Blues Travellers
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A tale of heartbreak and tenacity in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.

A viewer contacted us to share this video of their 1991 trip to the Delta and North Mississippi. It includes photos of buildings that have since been moved or demolished, like Muddy Waters' cabin at Stovall Farm and the church where Sonny Boy Williamson is buried.

A 1960's TV show produced in Nashville... That's Jimi Hendrix on guitar backing the first act performing Shotgun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-XepQFtOQg

From T. DeWayne Moore

Coverage from overseas...

A 1985 album on the Pablo Records label which we hadn't seen, or heard, before. This was one of Joe Turner's last recordings; he died the following year.

Happy Wednesday! I’m taking on the #robertjohnsonchallenge this week. I’m doing Milkcow’s Calf Blues, which is a favorite of mine. Christone "KINGFISH" IngramMarquise Knox #youngblackandblue #Ruralblues

Conway Twitty was from Friar's Point, Mississippi

Matt Munoz visiting the Rube Lacey memorial he helped put in place. T. DeWayne Moore

"The current tower proposal arrives on the heals of the momentum and interest generated last year when a prominent New York investor staked a claim to a number ...of district properties. The current proposal could also arrive with the possible removal of a historic, though unassuming, Pinch-North Main city-owned property at 369 North Main, which could threaten the National Register status of the entire district..." https://storyboardmemphis.org//de-listed-de-struction-inv/

Marty Stuart is from Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi