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I’m from Jackson but the delta starts at Yazoo City about 35 miles northwest

We had deer and duck camps all over it and I had Women I knew all over it too

My cousin lives in Indianola and used to manage the BB King museum

Her son married a delta scioness there last year at the former home of a former us senator

She’s queen of the delta arguably socially...

It’s a unique place

White Gentry

Black blues legacy which is rich

Great waterfowl hunting

The sadness is agri business has taken over and few jobs with mechanization

Most black live on handouts ....

White families lease out their plantations for 200 an acre bare lease

Some families pocket a million a year mailbox money

Cotton seed is expensive and they figure let Bunge or ADM or Cargill take the risk

Black blues,an some of who, I saw ...Son Thomas, Sonny and Brownie, Furry Lewis and I produced a BB king show once at Ole Miss

My dad knew BB personally

Blues players

I like Son House best ......and Charley Patton