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On July 12, 1887, Isaiah T. Montgomery, his cousin Joshua P. T. Montgomery, and Benjamin T. Green bought 840 acres of Delta swampland and fo…
Will Dockery graduated from Ole Miss and bought land on the Sunflower River in 1895 for its timber. He recognized the richness of the soil a…
Highway 61 runs north-south through the Delta; Highway 49 crosses it in Clarksdale. Three giant blue guitars mark the intersection next to A…
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Clarksdale sits in the flat interior of the Mississippi Delta, where the Sunflower River runs through cotton country and three federal highways — U.S. 49, 61, and 278 — converge at the center of…
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The blues was invented in the Delta and recorded in Memphis. This trip drives the river-flat road between them — the cotton fields where Charley Patton taught Howlin' Wolf to play, the train platform at Tutwiler where W.C. Handy first heard a man play slide guitar with a knife, the three contested graves of Robert Johnson, the prison farm Alan Lomax recorded at, the last rural juke joint, and then up to Memphis — Beale Street, Sun, Stax — where the studios took what the Delta had started and put it on tape that the rest of the country could hear. Eleven stops, two states, about three days if you take it seriously.
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