Tuesday, August 23, 2011

MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES

TOUR OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA July 21, 2011


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On the road to Avalon, Carroll County, Mississippi
















King Cotton







'Carroll County Blues'








The Tallahatchie River on the road to Avalon




Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe



















Old Rural Church near Avalon, Mississippi



























Fisk Jubilee Singers, 'Oh Lord, I Done What You Tole Me To Do' (1909)




























John Hurt, Avalon Blues, 1928





















Graveyard by the swamps, near Avalon







































































































The Civil Rights trail: Murder of Emmett Till in Money, Miss. in 1955























Emmett Till





















The Bryant store today













The Tallahatchie River at Money, Miss., where the mutilated body of Emmett Till was found.




















A witness points at the murderers in the course of the trial: the beginning of the Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi





























Funeral home in Tutwiler where the body of Emmett Till was dressed and prepared for burial in Chicago.











This photo of Emmett Till's remains, at the open-casket funeral in Chicago, was published with permission of his mother in order to shock the world.





Gravesite of Fannie Lou Hamer in Ruleville, Miss.

































































Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm



























Mose Allison, 'Parchman Farm' 1957





Bukka White, 'Parchman Farm Blues'



Graveyard by the swamps near Tutwiler, Mississippi








The tomb of Sunny Boy Williamson





































Sunny Boy Williamson, 'Don't Start Me Talkin' 1955









The Blues Trail: Tutwiler, Mississippi













Rail Station at Tutwiler, Miss.







































































Tutwiler from a distance




Clarksdale, Mississippi




The crossroads of Mississippi State Highways 61 and 49 is reputedly the place where Robert Johnson met with the Devil and exchanged his immortal soul for the skill of playing the guitar.









Robert Johnson, 'Crossroad Blues' 1936



The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi




Rat, the owner of the Riverside Hotel































No. 6: John Lee Hooker's room at the Riverside Hotel
















No. 6



















John Lee Hooker





Room where Bessie Smith died, at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, in 1937























Autographed poster of D-Bone at the Riverside Hotel























Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi





Inside the Delta Blues Museum
























































Muddy Waters, 'Got My Mojo Workin'








John Lee Hooker, 'Boom, Boom'



John Lee Hooker's guitar at the Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Miss.



Home of Tennessee Williams in Clarksdale, Mississippi



















Road back to Oxford, Mississippi












Leadbelly, 'House of the Risin' Sun' (1944)

















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