Also staying at the hotel is Robert Taylor, a hip Detroit gangster with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Delta blues.
On the other side of the Mississippi, Clarksdale is the site of the Delta Blues Museum which features a wax replica of a legendary bluesman, Muddy Waters.
ECONOMIST: The music of poor blacks enriches America��s deep south
Three blue guitars mark the spot where Delta blues henchman Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for mastery of the guitar.
Milton Campbell, better known as Little Milton, was a legend of the Delta blues, a self-taught guitarist with a voice that really made you believe what he had to say.
This was instigated by Clive, when out of the blue he gave me an album to listen to call King of the Delta Blues Singers, a collection of seventeen songs recorded by bluesman Robert Johnson in the 1930s.
Like America's own downhearted Delta blues or country ballads, Siminica's woeful tales of lost love are best sipped in doses the size of "La Salul Cel Negru" it's the best way to savor the sadness without drowning in tears.
The early part of the afternoon is all about emerging bands from the city with a welcome return for Liverpudlian psychers The Wicked Whispers, Wirral band The Red Suns and recent signing to Geffen Records, the country blues influenced Delta Maid.
The song is "Catfish Blues" by Skip James from the album Blues from the Delta.
The Loueo Plains(ph) of the Mississippi delta spawned a legion of blues men in the 1940s and '50s, but maybe none more famous today than Riley B.
"Much like The Rolling Stones went in search of blues guys through the Delta, I mean, these guys did their own personal journey as well, " Berlin says.
In the 1980s, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, attempted to turn Helena into a bright tourist attraction by creating the Delta Cultural Centre to promote the region's rich blues tradition.
Mr. RANDALL: I think the hardship of the delta and the black experience in the delta was the thing that encouraged a lot of people to go into the blues.
When Stewart leaves to continue creating his own sounds, Palmer goes south, to the Delta (and towns like Greenville, Clarksdale, and Bentonia), where the deepest blues were born in the shacks and juke joints of black sharecroppers.
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