The Heart of The Blues. The Sound of the Mississippi Delta Speaks to Music Lovers Everywhere
Day laborers, picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Wikimedia This is the heart of the Delta, a brooding, magnificent plain in northwest Mississippi that runs south to Vicksburg, east to Mississippi’s central mountain range, and spills over into Arkansas to the west and Tennessee to the north. The blues were …