Delta Blues Photography

09/10/2015

Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
(05/2015)

02/09/2015

Inside of an abandoned house in the ghost town of Rodney, Mississippi.

Rodeny is a former city in Jefferson County in southwest Mississippi, approximately 32 miles (51 km) northeast of Natchez. Rodney was founded in 1828, and in the 19th century, it was only three votes away from becoming the capital of the Mississippi Territory. Its population declined to nearly zero after the Mississippi River changed course. The Rodney Center Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

20/07/2015

Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as "Parchman Farm"

Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, is the oldest prison and the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, USA.

"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. It is an autobiographical piece, in which White sings of his experience at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary, known as Parchman Farm.

(photo taken May 2015)

15/06/2015

Clarksdale at night
Mural at the Rock & Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS. Showing Bill "Howl-N-Madd" Perry, Sean "Bad" Apple, T-Model Ford and Robert "Bilbo" Walker. Mural painted by Mac Crank.
(3rd of May 2015)

15/06/2015

Pat Thomas at the Highway 61 Blues Museum in Leland Mississippi with one of the photos that I took of him some years before. Pat is the son of James "Son" Thomas.
(1st of May 2015)

23/05/2015

Robert Bilbo Walker at Red's, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 9th of May 2015

08/03/2015

Sorry to hear that "Big Boy" Martin Grant has passed. The first (ond only) time I saw him was at Clarksdale Music Fest in 2013. An energetic and great performer.

RIP Martin "Big Boy" Grant

http://youtu.be/b8N9lcbgAEw

16/08/2014

Cedric Burnside live at the Blues Music Awards 2013, Memphis, Tennessee, May 2013

13/08/2014

14 years old Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, live at Reds, May 2013

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, "The Deltaboy"

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was born to Princess Pride Ingram and Christopher Ingram in 1999.
[...]
At the tender age of 8, Kingfish began playing the drums. A year later at the age of 9, he took up the bass guitar. At the age of 11, he began playing lead guitar. By the age of 14, he had mastered all three instruments and has added vocals to his ever growing list of talents. Kingfish's guitar influences run the gamut of the Blues from the Delta Blues of Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters to the electric Blues of B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, and Buddy Guy to the Rock Blues of Chuck Berry and Eric Gales and so many others. Surprisingly at such a young age, he can play just like his idols and mentors and possesses the additional ability to create a Blues sound entirely his own.
[...] (source: http://www.christonekingfishingram.com)

photo © by L. Dornieden

07/07/2014

Grave of Furry Lewis

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (March 6, 1893 - September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s. (source: wikipedia)

Photo taken May 2013 at Hollywood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee

05/07/2014

Robert Belfour

Robert "Wolfman" Belfour (born September 11, 1940, Red Banks, Mississippi, is an American blues musician. His father, Grant Belfour taught him the guitar at a young age and he continued his tutelage in the blues from musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough, in particular, had a profound influence on him. His music is deeply rooted in Mississippi Hill Country traditions, in contrast to those of delta blues. [...]
(source: wikipedia)

Photo taken May 2013 at "Red's", Clarksdale, Mississippi

01/03/2014

Walnut Street Blues Bar, Greenville Mississippi, May 2013

Walnut Street Blues Bar, Greenville, Mississippi, May 2013