Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Fourth Edition

This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with the devil and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin' Wolf to moan "Smokestack Lightnin'." Blues Traveling was the first and is the indisputably essential guidebook to Mississippi's musical places and its blues history.

For this new fourth edition, Steve Cheseborough returned once again to the Delta, revisited all of the locales featured in previous editions of the book, and uncovered fresh destinations. He includes updated material on new festivals, state blues markers, club openings and closings, and many other transformations in the Delta's ever-lively blues scene. The fourth edition also features new information on the Mississippi Blues Trail, updated information on the many blues sites throughout the Delta, and twenty new photographs.

With photographs, maps, easy-to-follow directions, and an informative, entertaining text, this book will lead the reader in and out of Clarksdale, Greenwood, Helena (Arkansas), Rolling Fork, Jackson, Memphis, Natchez, Bentonia, Rosedale, Itta Bena, and dozens of other locales where generations of blues musicians have lived, traveled, and performed.

Author: Steve Cheseborough
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 10/24/2018
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781496813008
ISBN10: 1496813006
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Blues
- Travel | Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
- Travel | United States | South | East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)

About the Author
Steve Cheseborough is an independent scholar and blues musician. His work has been published in Living Blues, Blues Access, Mississippi, and the Southern Register.