Picnic night at Othar Turner’s farm, Gravel Springs, Mississippi (1978)

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My grandmother, she say I shouldn’t be playing. I should go to church. Finally, I say I’m going do this, I’m going do it. And she got where she didn’t bother me about it.

~   Muddy Waters on playing the blues
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“God knows I tried.” Junior Kimbrough
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Booker T. Washington White (Bukka White)
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A roadside sign for Route 61 along the route between Memphis, Tenn. and Clarksdale, Miss.
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BLIND GARY DAVIS - DEATH DON’T HAVE NO MERCY

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“Mississippi” John HurtCafe Yana, Boston, MA, 1964
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John Lee Hooker, photographed by Lawrence Shustak for Riverside Records, ca. 1960.
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Mississippi Blues by R.L. Burnside

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