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Celebrating Black Music Month at Delta Blues Museum

Celebrate the Musical Legacy of Highway 61

Highway 61 may be the most famous road in American music. Often called "the blues highway," its route stretches along the Mississippi River through the Mississippi Delta and the towns of Tunica, Clarksdale, Cleveland, Leland and Natchez. Many blues artists grew up near Highway 61 - Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Son House and Charley Patton, to name a few. These and other musicians traveled this road north to Memphis and on to Chicago, following the path of The Great Migration by Virtual Field Trip or through our Explore & Learn Program. Like Howlin' Wolf (b. June 10, 1910), who perfected his musical style on the Delta's Dockery Plantation before heading to the big city. This month, the Chicago Blues Festival returns (June 9-12) to celebrate the relationship of Delta country blues and Chicago electric blues.

Our Gift Shop offers many souvenirs of this legendary blues highway. We have road signs, posters, caps, and mugs...CDs and books that feature music and history related to Highway 61...and travel guides that map out how to experience Highway 61 in the Delta today.

And don't miss our new holographic poster of the Muddywood Guitar, commissioned by ZZTop's Billy Gibbons and made from a piece of the cabin where Muddy Waters lived.

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New Blues

Signed copies of Charlie Musslewhite's MISSISSIPPI SON
are now available for purchase in the Gift Shop

The Museum appreciates your patronage and support - thank you!

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For more information about the Delta Blues Museum, see our website.

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This newsletter is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and, in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Museum Contact information

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#1 Blues Alley Lane
Clarksdale, MS 38614
Phone: 662-627-6820
Email: info@deltabluesmuseum.org