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Top blues songs to emerge out of the Mississippi Delta

Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Published
8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost. ....

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The Last Remaining Juke Joints in America

The Great Migration In Reverse
In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my advertising career moved me to St. Louis. A year later, I was sitting in Junior’s Place a rural juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, a.k.a. the middle of nowhere. And my life was changed.
Old bluesmen, young bluesmen. Folk art on the walls, moonshine in plastic jugs. And a local African American audience bursting from an ancient structure clearly built without the aid of an architect. That was Junior’s (which burned down in 2000). ....

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