Browsing: Highway 61

To connect the musical past to our present, the Mississippi Delta, Arkansas, and the blues metropolis of Memphis have teamed up to create “Bridging the Blues”!! Discover The delta’s incredible history!

I’m just gonna come flat out and say it: If you haven’t paid a visit to the Mississippi Delta yet, plan one now to this starkly beautiful, richly musical place.

Deep in the Delta, the Highway 61 Blues Museum shows that the small town of Leland boasts a who’s who of delta bluesmen, and even leaves a mark on Rock n Roll!

From their travels, stays, music jams, and dozens of interviews in the Mississippi Delta, two brothers have compiled a book to capture the fascinating characters and sights of this musical mecca! Read the introduction!!

The Gateway to the Blues, nestled on Highway 61 not far from where 69 merges on Tunica, is the latest must-stop for blues fans in their excursion through the rich musical magic that exists in the Mississippi Delta.

Bessie Smith is rumored to have died, after an automobile crash, at a local hospital in Clarksdale. Could she have been saved? What really happened that night on Highway 61 outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi