Mississippi Burning.

D Price with fields burning behind him.  
After the wheat is harvested in May and June, farmers burn their fields to prepare it for either corn or beans.  I took some pics of a Farm near the town of Vance, MS doing such an event Friday evening.  

Jarvis andD Price went with me to the fire.  We had to cross a river cause the bridge was out and only D went with me. So he got to be my model for a few shots, like the one above.  

RRRROOOOAAAAARRRRR

Sumner Tours

 Jim Breen laughs at a story from Betty Pearson, board member of the West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity affiliate.  Pearson was a strong advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the South. 

Elvis is Overrated.

My mom came to visit me for the weekend and a few days.  She's a big fan of Elvis Presley's so we went to Graceland.  We went to see about seeing the the actual house.  There's different packages seeing the heartbreak hotel with the house or two of his airplanes.  The house itself cost $27.  My mom said that she thought that was a bit too much.  She's a fan of Elvis' but not that much.  That was funny.  

Delta Jubilee

Po Monkey's

Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson had a second benefit show. this time at Po Monkey's in Merigold, MS.  

This says it all.  Juke or jook or juk, are the real and passionate places to see blues music and the more heartfelt intimate way it was started over 10o years ago here in the delta.  
Monkey him self rests during the show as a Curious George monkey hangs above him.  
Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson
Monkey's are stapled to the ceiling throughout Monkey's house.

Clearing the Fields.

Happy Birthday Dad!!

I was lucky to be home this year when we celebrated my dads birthday.  He's a pretty swell guy. 

More...

DJ Dingo spins old and new blues CDs at his club, My Brother's Sports Bar, Sunday May 25, 2008.  

These two pics are from an assignment I've given myself along with the help of Liz in the above picture.  Her father has let me stay in a cabin on their property for nearly nothing and as a thank you I'll be shooting the farm and it's daily doings and other shots and presenting it to Bobby as a thank you gift with words by his daughter Liz.  So here you go.  It's the famous Stovall Farms that Muddy Waters lived at before he moved up to Chicago.  

laziness and an update

I've got a few thing to put up here.  I've been neglecting this.  Very counterproductive.  I'll work on that.  No excuses!!

Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson sings during a benefit for lung cancer that he has, Friday May 23, at Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, MS
Anthony Sherard sings "Sweet Home Chicago" at a benefit show for "Junebug" Jefferson, Friday May 23, 2008 at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS. 

Eric Patten gets kisses from a neighborhood dog in Tutwiler, MS