@orpheus10 The dinner with the 'country' musician is different from the Juke Joint Festival which is almost entirely local blues musicians a fair number of whom are relatives of Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside which is cool. Some of it is hard core delta blues as in one old guy with a guitar and that is what I like the most.
@blindjim : Mississippi is a treasure chest of great musicians and writers. Sam Cooke was from Clarksdale. BB King was from nearby Indianola. The friends we are visiting helped do some engineering work for the BB King museum and got to meet him several times before he died. Of course most of the famous blues musicians were from Mississippi or Arkansas.
Elvis was from Mississippi.
Jimmy Buffett
Ike Turner
A slew of country and jazz music singers.
Leontyne Price (opera).
For a state so small, so poor and so backwards its contribution to literature and music is unparalleled. Rock and roll started in Mississippi.
@jbrrp1 I'll have a flask.
@blindjim : Mississippi is a treasure chest of great musicians and writers. Sam Cooke was from Clarksdale. BB King was from nearby Indianola. The friends we are visiting helped do some engineering work for the BB King museum and got to meet him several times before he died. Of course most of the famous blues musicians were from Mississippi or Arkansas.
Elvis was from Mississippi.
Jimmy Buffett
Ike Turner
A slew of country and jazz music singers.
Leontyne Price (opera).
For a state so small, so poor and so backwards its contribution to literature and music is unparalleled. Rock and roll started in Mississippi.
@jbrrp1 I'll have a flask.