Mississippi Delta Quotes
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I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
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I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
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I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.
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The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.
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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
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It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
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Top Authors
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Stephen Root Actor -
Steve Antin Actor -
Stella Adler Actress -
Steve McNair American football quarterback -
Sonia Delaunay Artist -
Sri Chinmoy Author -
Stephen Baxter Author -
Stanley Ho Business magnate -
Stan Kroenke Entrepreneur -
Steve Bellamy Entrepreneur -
Sonja Henie Figure Skater -
Sophie Barthes Film director -
Stephen J. Dubner Journalist -
Steven A. Cohen Manager -
Son Lux Musician -
Steven Drozd Musician -
Stephen Chbosky Novelist -
Stephen Heintz Philanthropist
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Steven Herrick Poet -
Sonny Liston Professional Boxer -
Soulja Boy Rapper -
Steve Lillywhite Record producer -
Sophie B. Hawkins Singer-songwriter -
Stacy London Television Actor -
Steve Yegge Video Game Developer
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