Delta Blues (Cool Website)

[Syrinx]

I love this website. It hasn't been updated in quite some time. I hope Junior is okay.

Got any interesting websites to recommend?

I'm a cultural anthropologist who lives in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana side, and I spend lots of time in Delta juke joints. You're about 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.

If you're in one of these places and you notice a tall white guy with a gray ponytail, that's probably me. Buy me a beer for directing you to such an awesome place.

Here in Junior's Juke Joint you'll find pictures of, stories about, and even maps to Delta places the local chambers of commerce never heard of. (Heck, let's face facts: if the chambers knew about those places they'd want to shut them down.) The good folks at www.mapquest.com provided the maps. Click on the mapquest link for maps with a larger scale.

Junior's Juke Joint

[greendog]

1. Here's a couple:

Weenie Campbell:
http://weeniecampbell.com/mambo/?option=com_smf&Itemid=114&action=tagsIndex

The Central Iowa Blues Society:
http://www.cibs.org/legends/delta1.htm