What has most people scratching their heads is the blackcrow that appears to hover over Depp's head, and the black stripes that run vertically down his painted face.
Talking to her, it was easy to imagine that the place would not have looked so different when it was one of the few inns open to blues musicians (or anybody else who was black) during the Jim Crow era.
Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.