This is the grave of Freddie King. Born in Gilmer, Texas in 1934, King grew up first in Dallas and then in Chicago. This was the standard Great Migration pattern.
This is the grave of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Born in 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee, McDowell grew up in the sharecropping world of Jim Crow. His family picked cotton. His parents.
This is the grave of Sonny Boy Williamson. Born at some point in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and probably either in Greenwood or Glendora, Mississippi, Aleck Miller,.
This is the grave of John Cephas. Born in 1930 in Washington, D.C., Cephas grew up in Bowling Green, Virginia. His father was a Baptist minister so he grew up.
This is the grave of James Cotton. Born in Tunica, Mississippi in 1935, Cotton was heavily influenced by the blues musicians a generation older than he in the Delta. He.
I've been reading Ted Gioia's Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. I'll talk a bit more about the book next time I.
Blind Willie McTell on the perils of agricultural work and nature in the American South.
I'm not sure if "great" is exactly the word for the bluesman T-Model Ford, but "interesting" certainly qualifies. He has died at the age of 94.
