The Chicago suburbs where I grew up are a long way from the Mississippi Delta. The north suburbs are also in a parallel universe far from the south side of what has been called the most segregated city in America. The country blues of the Deep South played primarily on acoustic instruments came...
That’s in Sharkey County, the lower quarter of the Mississippi Delta. Rolling Fork was where the train stopped, where Muddy’s family would get their mail and do their shopping. Rolling Fork was on the map. But Muddy’s actual birthplace is to the west and north of there, in the next county over — ...