SoundsGood's Photos

This was taken in my front yard in the Mississippi delta. I was headed out when I noticed the sun was about to go behind a cloud, so I ran and got my camera and caught this little gem.

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This is Pinetop Perkins, a Mississippi native who is 92 years old and considered one of the best blues pianists of all times. He hasn't lost a note over the years! That's Willie "Big Eyes" Smith with the harmonica and microphone.

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Here are some silos, both old and new, located not far from our house.

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Nothing spectacular, just another day's sunset deep in dixie

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Mr. Tater is a "near legendary" street musician from Clarksdale, MS. This is a shot of him performing his latest hit, "Tater Pie" in front of the audience (including Morgan Freeman) at the Ground Zero 5th anniversary party.

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I sleep like this after a hard night of drinking too...

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A shot of the moon taken from my mom's front yard in Chunky, Ms (yes that's a real place) during a visit one evening.

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What can I say about this guy? He was born in 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, so he'll be 91 in June and is still going strong... Here's a snippet of a bio on him that I found online... " Virtually all of the great Mississippi Delta bluesmen are gone. Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Son House, Muddy Waters and countless others have long left us. But there is still one talented Delta blues artist that is, luckily, still among us today and living in Chicago. David "Honeyboy" Edwards not only still sings and plays the blues in the raw, unadulterated country style that he learned in the early part of the last century, but he's also a man with a wealth of fascinating tales that seem as large as any piece of American folklore. Here's a man who often watched early bluesman Charley Patton play on the streets of the Delta Mississippi as well as the fertile blues ground of Dockery Farms. He ran with Robert Johnson a few years after his mythical deal with the Devil, where Johnson allegedly sold his soul in exchange for talent and fame. He was even at Johnson's deathbed, after he was poisoned by a jealous juke joint owner, whose wife he purportedly had an affair with. He was discovered by renowned folklorist Alan Lomax in 1942 a week before Lomax stumbled upon the then unknown McKinley Morganfield, also known as Muddy Waters. Like so many other Mississippi bluesmen at the time he made the Great Migration north to Chicago in the '40s and was a vital player in the burgeoning blues scene of early Maxwell Street. There's hardly a name in the pantheon of 20th century bluesmen that Honeyboy didn't know, play with or see perform. His own life history of wandering, womanizing, drinking, gambling and playing juke joints and street corners for nickels and dimes throughout a great deal of the last century sounds like it could be one of the defining stories in the life of a black country bluesman. Edwards is more than a talented blues musician, he's a walking piece of American folklore." -Taken from Concertlivewire.com

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This is Stuckey's Bridge in Lauderdale County, MS. There are many stories about this bridge, and I don't really know what is truth and what is legend. It's been listed as being built as early as 1847 and as late as 1901. So that would mean at the very least, it's 105 years old! It's also rumored to be haunted. As the story goes, Old Man Stuckey (whom the bridge is named after) had a hotel near the bridge site in the mid 1800s (the site was along a major road prior to the Civil War). The old man would sometimes murder his hotel guests, steal their valuables, and bury the bodies along the riverbank. He was eventually found out, caught, and was hung from the bridge itself. Now people claim to see an old man walking the banks of the river with a lantern at night and hearing splashes in the water under the bridge when the river is otherwise perfectly quiet. I didn't see any ghosts, just a really cool old bridge full of history and covered in the graffiti of people who do not appreciate things such as this.

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