Sunday 22 May 2011

Robert Johnson & Dockery Plantation

And here we go again with another of Leon's must see music references, Robert Johnson's grave.  Now the grave is widely reported to be in 3 separate locations so we choose the one that got the most votes, the Little Zion Baptist Church on Money Road, Mississippi.  Basically we drove to a church, found a grave, took some photos and then left.  It was all very moving or would have been had it not been 90 degrees out.

Then onto another heritage music site, the Dockery Plantation, an old cotton plantation argued to be the home of the delta blues as it was once home to blues legends Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin Wolf.  We did a drive by photo op.  this is the best way to see the south as it's way too bloomin hot to get out of the air conditioned car.

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