Travel, Photography and the Blues.
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We stopped off at the Highway 61 Museum and met Pat Thomas (James ‘Son’ Thomas’s son. He played for us!
Some of the monuments and Markers from The Blues Trail in Mississippi (Plus a few) – Pt 3
Some of the monuments and Markers from The Blues Trail in Mississippi (Plus a few) – Pt 1
The Mississippi Blues Trail – Rolling Fork – Birthplace of Muddy Waters.
I’d heard there was a monument to Muddy Waters in his birthplace. We stopped and I had a walk around. I was looking for a statue. There were some murals on a wall but that wasn’t it.
It was Sunday morning and the only people around were three guys in a gazebo sharing a bottle of whiskey in a brown bag. I wandered over. They looked like locals. I asked them if they knew where the monument to Muddy Waters was. One of them said ‘You’re standing in it, brother’.
Seems the gazebo was the monument. It had a plaque in front. I took a photo.
One of the other guys said: ‘What’s Muddy Waters ever done for us?’
I thought that was a little harsh as the guys were sitting in his gazebo enjoying a drink.
