Music in Mississippi

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.