Friday, November 20, 2009

Take a Delta Blues Trip to "Where the Blues Began"


Rosedale Juke, photo by Susan Klopfer




I stroke it to the North, I stroke it to the South... (Clarence Carter)




"Junior" is a cultural anthropologist who lives in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana side, and spends lots of time in Delta juke joints. His popular link allows blues lovers to take a trip inside the places where the blues began.

"I'm not talking about white people blues bars filled with college students. I'm talking about edge-of-a-cotton-field juke joints filled with real Delta folks," he says.

Here's his link -- Junior's Juke Joint