"Gonna go to Mississippi. Gonna see Miss Liza" - Virgil Starkwell in "Take The Money And Run"
Well we went down to Mississippi, down to the Delta, home of the Blues. We saw cotton fields, cotton gins, juke joints, The Crossroads, and the 3 graves of Robert Johnson. Didn't see Miss Liza though.
Grave No.1. This was previously though to be the real one but Johnson scholars have recently changed their minds.
The headstone was added in 1991.
Grave No. 2. This one was never really in contention.
Grave No. 3. Now assumed to be the actual grave of Robert Johnson. The headstone was added a few years ago.
Notice the can of potted meat left as an offerring (on the left side of the headstone).
Down in the land of cotton. It was harvest time too.
Morgan Freeman's "Ground Zero Blues Club" in Clarksdale, MS. Gotta love the couch's.
The intersection of Highways 49 and 61. Every bluesman from the Delta has been through here.
It's not the "real Crossroads" that Robert Johnson sang about, that's more a state of mind,
when you reach that point in life where you come to a crossroads and decisions must be made.
We stayed in this fantastic hotel , "The Alluvian", in Greenwood, MS. Really posh but I have to ask why?
Why do I need a phone by the john? I'm not answering.
And it had to happen, a stretch hummer. This one is owned by the "T&A Limo Service. It comes complete with
"T&A" and naked chick sillouette on the spare tire cover (I wish I'd gotten a picture of that!). What a class act!
I wanted to ask how many gallons per mile it got but I was told I would be throttled.
All in all a great trip. I saw some beautiful pottery in Merigold, MS at The McCarty Pottery. The Delta is a beautiful place, very flat, it is an alluvial plain after all. A lot of great music has come from here, it is the real birthplace of American rock and roll, it all started with the blues. Some places, like Greenwood and Cleveland seem pretty prosperous (The Viking Range Co. is in Greenwood). Other places, like Clarksdale, are very poor. People were nice everywhere though. I don't quite understand why this is a republican state. It is certainly not in the people's economic interest to vote for a party that cares not for the poor or the non-white. This state should be the Dem's for the taking. All the Dem's need to do is get off of their asses and get to work.
7:55:40 PM 
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