Music History in Mississippi

This small museum showcases the Singing Brakeman's yodeling prowess, railroad roots, and country music stardom.

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

W.C. Handy, sometimes known as the Father of the Blues, drew inspiration for one of his biggest hits from this spot.

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

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

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

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

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.