Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta BluesUpdated and expanded, the indispensable guidebook to the blues birthplaces, juke joints, and crossroads of Mississippi, Memphis, and Helena |
Contents
Looking for the Blues Blues Traveling through History | 3 |
Planning Your Blues Tour | 10 |
Guidelines for Good Times | 11 |
Memphis Beale Street | 21 |
Away from Beale Street | 35 |
Down Highway 61 Highway 61 | 47 |
Walls | 48 |
Robinsonville | 50 |
Leland | 141 |
Bourbon | 145 |
Indianola | 147 |
Belzoni | 150 |
Hollandale | 151 |
Murphy | 154 |
Panther Burn | 155 |
Vicksburg | 156 |
Tunica | 54 |
Lula | 55 |
Helena Ark | 57 |
The Clarksdale Area Clarksdale | 67 |
Stovall | 84 |
Farrell | 87 |
The MidDelta Tutwiler | 89 |
Parchman | 92 |
Shelby | 96 |
Mound Bayou | 98 |
Merigold | 99 |
Cleveland | 101 |
Rosedale | 104 |
Beulah | 106 |
Drew | 109 |
Ruleville | 110 |
Glendora | 111 |
The Greenwood Area Greenwood | 113 |
North of Greenwood | 117 |
Avalon | 119 |
Valley | 120 |
Itta Bena | 121 |
Blue Lake | 122 |
Quito | 123 |
Morgan City | 125 |
Moorhead | 127 |
Greenville to Vicksburg Greenville | 131 |
Metcalfe | 140 |
The Jackson Area Jackson | 159 |
Vaughan | 175 |
Ebenezer | 177 |
Bentonia | 178 |
Yazoo City | 180 |
Crystal Springs | 181 |
Renfroe Valley | 182 |
VarnadoLa | 183 |
Port Gibson | 184 |
East Mississippi Meridian | 189 |
Crawford | 192 |
West Point | 194 |
Whites White Station | 197 |
Tupelo | 198 |
North Mississippi Hill Country | 203 |
Oxford | 204 |
Water Valley | 207 |
Abbeville | 208 |
Chulahoma | 213 |
Hudsonville | 214 |
Como | 215 |
Gravel Springs | 218 |
Sardis | 219 |
HernandoNesbit | 220 |
Recommended Reading | 223 |
Recommended Listening | 225 |
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Common terms and phrases
album Avenue B. B. King band Beale St Beale Street Bentonia blues artists Blues Festival blues singers bluesman Bo Carter born building Cafe casinos cemetery Center Charley Patton Chatmon Chicago Church City Clarksdale Club crossroads Delta Blues Dockery downtown drive Elmore James Elvis front grave Greenville Greenwood guitar guitarist Handy harmonica Helena Highway 61 Holly Springs Howlin Indianola intersection Jackson Jimmie jook joint Junior Kimbrough King Biscuit Leland levee live blues live music marker Memphis Minnie miles Mississippi blues Mississippi Sheiks Muddy Waters musicians Natchez Nelson Street night Parchman Park plantation played the blues Presley radio River road Robert Johnson Robert Nighthawk Robinsonville Rodgers Rufus Thomas sang Saturday sing Skip James songs Sonny Boy Williamson Southern Speir station Stovall studio Sunflower tour town Turn left turn right Tutwiler Vicksburg Willie Wolf Yazoo