The Mississippi Delta - south of Memphis, north of Vicksburg, and between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers - is known as "The Land Where the Blues Began." The music of the plantation slaves, share-croppers, river levy and railway line laborers emerged as work songs and then evolved into "the blues."
This photography collection, while created at the start of the 2000's, gives glimpses into the life and time of the early 1900's, when names like Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King had their start in The Delta. These photographs were created mainly around Clarksdale, Mississippi and at the Hopson Plantation and it's famed Shack-Up Inn.
 Window on Delta Blues |
 Morgan Freeman's Blues Club |
 Cotton Field Blues |
 Crossroads at Clarksdale |
 Cotton Gin Window |
 Cotton Horizon |
 Chevy Share Cropper Cabins |
 Freeman's Blues Club #2 |
 Chevy 3100 Blues |
 Freeman's Blues Club #3 |
 Shack & Cotton Fields #2 |
 Beale Street Club |
 Shack & Cotton Fields #3 |
 Po' Monkey's Juke Joint |
 Blues of the Cotton Fields |
 Mississippi John Hurt Home |
 Cotton Gin Window Blues |
 Cotton Gin Texaco |
 Dockery Farm |
 Railway Blues |
 Share Cropper Blues |
 Sheriff & Share Croppers |
 Plantation Blues |
 Plantation Church Pews |
 Shack & Cotton Fields |
 The Commissary |
 B B King Marker at Leland MS |
 Tallahatchie Flats |
 Cotton Field Monuments |
 Tommy Gilmore in Sepia |
 Share Cropper Laundry |
 Delta Gothic |
 Delta Land Gospel Gothic |
 Delta Gothic Interior |
 Freeman's Club's Stage |
 Tommy Gilmore |
 Robert Johnson Crossroads |
 Dawn on the Bayou |
 Hopson Plantation Commissary |
 Dawn on the Plantation |
 Beale Street Blues Babe |
 James "Son" Thomas |
 Beale Street Blues Bar |
 Po' Monkey's Juke Joint 2 |
 Tommy of Choctaw MS |
 Willie King in His House |
 Juke Joint Mystery Door |
 Ladies Room, Ground Zero Blues Club |
 Men's Room, Ground Zero Blues Club |
 Turners Gin at Belzoni |
Cotton Horizon #2 |
 Juke Joint Delta Blues |
 Mississippi John Hurt at Valley General Store |
 Cotton Ball |
 Last Gas at the Commissary |
 Mississippi John Hurt Home |
 Itta Bena Blues |
 B B King Mural Leland MS |
 Blues Highway 61 Mural, Leland, MS |
 Delta Blues History Triptych Robert Johnson, Crossroads, & Muddy Waters |
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