That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
Nothing could stop Mississippi.
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
