History Is Lunch: Roger Stolle, Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential
On August 28, 2019, Roger Stolle presented Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life as part of the History Is Lunch series.
Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of first-hand history and anecdote.
“Juke joint--two words often used, often abused,” said Stolle. “They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time.”
All juke joints may be blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. In his book, Stolle includes stories from blues artists about juke joints with insights that delve below the murky surface. “I wanted to not only tell those tales, but canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments,” he said.
Roger Stolle has owned Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art in Clarksdale since 2002. He is the author of Hidden History of Mississippi Blues and is a regular columnist for Blues Music Magazine and Twoj Blues Magazine and is a contributing editor to Delta Magazine. Stolle has produced several critically acclaimed blues DCs and DVDs and co-produced the documentaries Hard Times, M for Mississippi, We Juke Up in Here!, and Moonshine and Mojo Hands. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati.
History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson. MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their Facebook page,
TOP 15. Best Museums in Mississippi
TOP 15. Best Museums in Mississippi: U.S.S. Cairo Museum, Tupelo Automobile Museum, Rosalie Mansion Natchez, Elvis Presley Birthplace & Museum, B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, The Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, Mississippi Children's Museum Jackson, Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Lynn Meadows Discovery Center Gulfport, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Old Capitol Museum, The Rock & Blues Museum, Lower Mississippi River Museum and Interpretive Center, The Old Depot Museum
Juke Joint Festival Final Project Journ
Spencer Hull
Traditional Blues music coupled with a small town-fair, prove to be economically sound for Delta!
April 12th marks the 11th annual Juke Joint Festival, in Clarksdale Miss, celebrating regional music and folk art by combining the music with a small town fair full of vendors and events for all ages.
Clarksdale, located at the crossroads of HWY 61 and 49, along with blues and Faustian legend, the crossroads are significant to the history of the area and has been considered since the early 20's to be one of the birthplaces of the Blues sound, that came from poverty stricken sharecroppers, singing about the hardships of their day in the fields. This artists generally played in juke joints which are small, inexpensive bars or restaurants that had a jukebox or a live band playing; and keeping in the spirit of history, The Juke Joint Festival, showcased 13 day stages set up with dozens of artists playing in their respective areas, with the main roads closed off crowds of attendees were able to walk around freely and visit multiple stages, while bringing a need source of revenue to the region.
This year was the highest sales we have had in over 11 years! The biggest weekend ever as far as the festival is concerned, said Roger Stolle owner of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Inc, also one of the organizers of the festival.
The Festival itself has become a staple of economic stability for the region, with attendance growing each year, with estimated counts of up to 7,000 people visiting the festival on Saturday alone, with 46 US States visiting, along with over 20 foreign countries who travel to attend, the boost has been noticeable to business owners and locals.
The festivals have become a way to pump some tourist money into Clarksdale's economy while preserving and educating others about a truly Americana roots music history but you also have a lot of people who I like to call 'grow a stores' that just show up to capitalize for just one weekend and not put the money back into the community, said Richard Crisman Gift Shop Manager at the Delta Blues Museum, in downtown Clarksdale and blues musician.
Not only was their live music but a large amount of local and regional vendors selling different folk art. From handcrafted cigar box guitars, to handmade quilts, and paintings, each booth provided a different insight and view of the region from their perspective and skill. The festival is not just for music and art lovers either though, with much of the day time activities tailored toward children with a petting zoo, bouncy castles, and electric bull among a few of the events scattered around the main square along with your typical county fair food, BBQ, funnel cakes, and the all so southern crawfish boil.
In 98 or 99, I was visiting Clarksdale on a business trip, and on a Saturday night there was not one blues concert being played in town. Thankfully we can proudly say that we have Blues just about seven nights a week and various bars throughout Clarksdale. And I can honestly say that the Festival has played a positive impact on the town moving forward. Roger Stolle.
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Terry Harmonica Bean: How Long
Terry 'Harmonica' Bean of Pontotoc, MS performing How Long at the 2014 MS Blues Marathon Expo in Jackson, MS (01/10/14). (Note: some of my song titles are just guesses--if I have a title wrong please leave the correct name in the comment section.)
Talking Black in America - Trailer
Official trailer for the groundbreaking documentary
TALKING BLACK in AMERICA.
talkingblackinamerica.org
For the DVD visit languageandlife.org
look for TALKING BLACK in AMERICA on PBS in 2019
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Trailer music credit: Deafhbeats:
The long-awaited release of the first documentary feature ever on African American language varieties and the powerful role of language in African American culture.
An amazing and thought-provoking film.
- Roger Stolle, Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art
Absolutely fabulous. … thoroughly educational, engaging and inspirational.
- Rick Moss, Chief Curator, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA
An awesome achievement!
- Barbara Boschert, Coahoma College, Clarksdale, MS
An awesome film. … This video belongs in an international museum for the world to see.
- Jerome Forbes, Principal of Old Bight High School, Cat Island, Bahamas
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The powerful identity forged by a shared heritage - the creativity and resilience of people living through oppression, segregation and the fight for social justice - is expressed in the diverse ways African Americans communicate. TALKING BLACK in AMERICA chronicles the incredible impact of African American English on American language and culture. Filmed across the United States, this documentary is a revelation of language as legacy, identity and triumph over adversity.
The status of African American speech has been controversial for more than a half-century now, suffering from persistent public misunderstanding, linguistic profiling, and language-based discrimination. We wanted to address that and, on a fundamental level, make clear that understanding African American speech is absolutely critical to understanding the way we talk today.
- Executive Producer, Walt Wolfram
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For more info and resources visit
talkingblackinamerica.org
Find out more about the Language and Life Project at
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Andres Roots In the Dark (live)
Recorded live @ the Deep Blues Festival - Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art in Clarksdale, Mississippi on Oct. 19, 2019. Mastered by Asko-Romé Altsoo. Photo by Jukka Juhola.
North Mississippi Homeplace: Photographs & Folklife
Photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford discusses a new book, North Mississippi Homeplace. In the early 1970s, Ford left graduate school and a teaching position in Boston, packed his young family into a van and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photos and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola and Tate counties, to a remote area north of Sardis Lake. His efforts resulted in the award-winning documentary film Homeplace (1975), but none of the still photos from this time were ever published. With this illustrated volume, those photos are now available and offer a valuable window onto the rural, local culture of northern Mississippi at that time. The moving photographs in Ford's new book illustrate his experiences as an apprentice to blacksmith Marion Randolph Hall, his visits to Hal Waldrip's General Store in Chulahoma, a day spent with A.G. Newsom and his crew making molasses and Othar Turner's barbecues accompanied by traditional fife-and-drum music. They also captured the evocative landscape of the Mississippi hill country and the everyday lives of its residents. In 2014 the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress acquired Michael Ford's collection of films and photographs documenting grassroots community life in northern Mississippi.
Related Resources: Blog post: North Mississippi Homeplace: //blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/05/north-mississippi-home-place/
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Linguists on African American Language: John Baugh
Excerpt from footage for the documentary TALKING BLACK in AMERICA with Professor John Baugh.
talkingblackinamerica.org
For the DVD visit languageandlife.org
look for TALKING BLACK in AMERICA on PBS in 2019
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The long-awaited release of the first documentary feature ever on African American language varieties and the powerful role of language in African American culture.
An amazing and thought-provoking film.
- Roger Stolle, Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art
Absolutely fabulous. … thoroughly educational, engaging and inspirational.
- Rick Moss, Chief Curator, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA
An awesome achievement!
- Barbara Boschert, Coahoma College, Clarksdale, MS
An awesome film. … This video belongs in an international museum for the world to see.
- Jerome Forbes, Principal of Old Bight High School, Cat Island, Bahamas
_________________________________________________________________
The powerful identity forged by a shared heritage - the creativity and resilience of people living through oppression, segregation and the fight for social justice - is expressed in the diverse ways African Americans communicate. TALKING BLACK in AMERICA chronicles the incredible impact of African American English on American language and culture. Filmed across the United States, this documentary is a revelation of language as legacy, identity and triumph over adversity.
The status of African American speech has been controversial for more than a half-century now, suffering from persistent public misunderstanding, linguistic profiling, and language-based discrimination. We wanted to address that and, on a fundamental level, make clear that understanding African American speech is absolutely critical to understanding the way we talk today.
- Executive Producer, Walt Wolfram
_________________________________________________________________
For more info and resources visit
talkingblackinamerica.org
Find out more about the Language and Life Project at
languageandlife.org
or on Facebook at facebook.com/NCLLP
Mississippi | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:09 1 Etymology
00:03:29 2 Geography
00:05:59 2.1 Major cities and towns
00:06:42 2.2 Climate
00:09:09 2.3 Ecology, flora, and fauna
00:11:37 2.4 Ecological problems
00:11:46 2.4.1 Flooding
00:15:43 3 History
00:17:32 3.1 Colonial era
00:20:02 3.2 United States territory
00:22:33 3.3 Statehood, 1817–1861
00:25:19 3.4 Civil War to 20th century
00:31:36 3.5 20th century to present
00:40:47 4 Demographics
00:44:36 4.1 Ancestry
00:48:39 4.2 Language
00:49:25 4.3 Religion
00:52:25 4.4 Birth data
00:52:53 4.5 LGBT
00:54:10 5 Health
00:56:30 6 Economy
01:02:19 6.1 Entertainment and tourism
01:04:04 6.2 Manufacturing
01:04:28 6.3 Taxation
01:06:09 6.4 Federal subsidies and spending
01:07:35 7 Politics and government
01:08:35 7.1 Laws
01:09:44 8 Political alignment
01:10:41 9 Transportation
01:10:50 9.1 Air
01:11:09 9.2 Roads
01:11:32 9.3 Rail
01:11:40 9.3.1 Passenger
01:12:06 9.3.2 Freight
01:12:50 9.4 Water
01:12:58 9.4.1 Major rivers
01:13:18 9.4.2 Major bodies of water
01:14:57 10 Media
01:15:06 11 Education
01:20:39 12 Culture
01:21:29 12.1 Music
01:23:40 12.2 Literature
01:23:48 12.3 Sports
01:24:34 13 Notable people
01:24:43 14 See also
01:25:00 15 Footnotes
01:25:09 16 Further reading
01:25:27 17 External links
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the po ...
Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early: Just a Little Bit
Elmo Williams (guitar) and Hezekiah Early of Natchez performing Just a Little Bit at the 2014 MS Blues Marathon Expo in Jackson, MS (01/10/14). Learn more about the musicians at the following links:
The Clarksdale Blues - Ray Steelman
Bio. is below.
The Clarksdale Blues - Ray Steelman - An original blues song by Ray. This was inspired by a couple of trips to Clarksdale and visits to The Shack Up Inn and The Riverside Hotel. Meeting Rat Ratliff was a sure inspiration for this song.
Some or all of these photos are taken from Google Advanced Search and are stated by Google to be “free to use or share, even commercially.”
Bio:
In 1979, Ray walked into the Longbranch Saloon, a small bar in Huntsville, Alabama. There was a solo artist there singing Merle Haggard's Silver Wings. Ray pulled out his Marine Band harmonica and climbed on to the stage. The rest is history. After playing backup harmonica on “Silver Wings,” Ray became a fixture on the entertainment scene from that point on from Nashville to Birmingham to Atlanta. Ray played seven days a week for many, many years and went on the be a regular in the recording studios of north Alabama. One year, he simultaneously held four state harmonica championship titles and was actually eventually banned from entering some of the amateur contests. Ray wrote three harmonica instruction books and made 15 guest appearances at Opryland theme park in Nashville and numerous appearances at Looney's Entertainment Park, Huntsville Alabama’s Panoply and numerous performing Arts Festivals, bars, honky-tonks, parties, and beer joints, having played as far away as Paris. Ray has done much session work in many recording studios from Nashville to North Alabama. Ray mostly played with artists on their way up or their way down. Ray made countless TV appearances playing his harmonicas and for four years was co-host on the Jamie Cooper Show on WAFF TV, the North Alabama NBC affiliate.
Currently: Retired businessman
Born: Room 203 of Lincoln County, TN hospital, 05/07/1946
Education: Middle Tennessee State (BS & MA), AL A&M, UK
Life Experiences: 17 yrs. high school teacher, administrator, coach
Song Writer: Yes, a few are on You Tube and other internet locations.
Inspiration: Watching the curious turns on life’s road and the people come and go during my lifetime…and Tom T. Hall, Vern Gosdin and Max D. Barnes
Health: Excellent, 5 miles a day, weights daily
Ventures: Owned and operated six businesses in AL & TN
Harmonica: Plays daily as street and special event performer
Stage Name: The Bama Jammer
Diatonics: Mainly Huang Silvertones (1st choice), Hohner Special 20’s
Chromatic: Some, various types
Echo Harps: Yes, various types
Vest Pocket Harps: Yes, all keys
Music Style: A blend of everything from movie themes, Celtic, Country, Delta Blues, Classical, Pop, Rock and Gospel
Personal Style: Clean-cut white boy harmonica (no tattoos, body piercings, nose rings, bad jokes, bad attitudes or snot-slinging hard-luck stories)
Biggest Influences: Charlie McCoy, Terry McMillan, Peter Madcat Ruth, Marcello Batista, Buddy Green, Little Walter, Lonnie Glosson, Jimmy Riddle, DeFord Bailey and a touch of Magic Dick
Music Blend: Steals licks from all of the above
Other Instruments: Plays a little banjo
Other: IFR general aviation pilot with all certifications, author, full-time grandpa
Vocals: Only when forced to… primarily as demo artist
Family: Very happily married, three kids, four grandchildren. Life is Good.
Venues: On street corners everywhere
Other Family Artists: Whitney Dean (son-in-law) of The Sweeplings
Advice to Aspiring Harmonica Players: 50 years of practice
Contact: Very private, hard to reach, internet contact only
Rambling Steve Gardner PROMOTION BLACK SIGN CC Show Oct 2015
Rambling Steve Gardner PROMOTION BLACK SIGN CC Show Oct 2015. Here is a promotional clip from the Black Sign Tokyo Mississippi Dokery Farms Work Wear collection. The fabulous Nicholas Clements filmed and put this together during the 2015 CC クラッチマガジン（CLUTCH Magazine） show in Yokohama, Japan. This piece was part of the combined CC European-Japan brand and lifestyle promotion for 2015. Big Leg Thanks all around.
Rambling Steve Gardner, Mississippi Roots and Bluesman, based in Tokyo, Japan, plays original, acoustic roots and country blues music; finger picking and slide on National Reso-phonic guitars, with harmonica. You know, Big Leg Acoustic Stuff.
With more than six CDs of traditional and original music, Rambling Steve Gardner plays and tours solo and with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW in the Southeastern United States, Austria and Germany as well as his home base of Japan, where many of his tours have been sponsored by the Cultural Affairs section of the United States Department of State.
CDs to date by Rambling Steve Gardner include his latest and sixth release on Blues Cat Records(2012), HESITATION BLUES, which follows WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS (2010) and WALKING THE DOG (2009) both with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW along with JERICHO (2007); BIG DELTA CROSSING (2005); RAMBLING WITH THE BLUES (2002). (The JERICHO ROAD SHOW, a group of international musicians based in Tokyo, Nashville and New Orleans include Washboard Chaz of Playing For Change and Bill Steber of the Jake Leg Stompers).
The JERICHO ROAD SHOW release, WALKIN’ THE DOG, was chosen by New Orleans community radio WWOZ as one of the top ten best releases for 2009. The single, “Been On The Job Too Long”, Rambling Steve Gardner’s original tune from the CD JERICHO, was nominated for Best Political Song of the Year (2008) by The Just Plain Folks international music awards, Nashville, TN. Rambling Steve Gardner is featured in the DVD/Double CD, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Friends, “Dare You To Do It Again” 219 Records (2004).
Home page: stevegardner.info Contact: bluzzz2u@yahoo.com
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★★--Press Quotes and Reviews for Rambling Steve Gardner--★★
..the gut power of Delta blues has had fewer finer exponent than Rambling Steve Gardner.” Michael Pronko-The Japan Times (Japan)
“Rambling Steve Gardner...storyteller, singer, bluesman... blues originale.”
Dietmar Hoscher- CONCERTO magazine (Austria)
Steve and his guys bring the best of the back porch to the front of the big stage” Peggy Lou WWOZ 91.3 FM Public Community Radio New Orleans (USA)
Does it get any better than WALKIN' THE DOG or WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS? You bet it does when you listen to Rambling Steve Gardner's newest CD, HESITATION BLUES. James POE WABG AWESOME AM 960 (USA)
Some of the coolist music that I have ever heard. Metal guitars and saws. Real blues from Rambling Steve Gardner. He is the real thing.
Andreas Dirnberger Blues Promotions (Austria) @ bluesfan.at
“Rambling Steve Gardner, rambles the lost highways of Hank Williams and Jimmy Rogers as easily as the flat delta of the Mississippi blues men whose music he carries on so very well.” Norio Higashi Radio Tokyo 954 AM (Japan)
Mississippi's music ambassador to Japan Al Brown WMOX Radio 1010 AM (USA)
Rambling Steve Gardner's music is as Mississippi as the cotton fields and the dark, muddy river bearing the same name. C. Sade Turnipseed Delta Renaissance WABG-TV (USA)
Great sound...Just my cup of tea. Barry Ivory “Melting Pot 99.3 FM (Australia)
Rambling Steve Gardner, Hesitation Blues, is one of my favorite artist, playing some of my favorite songs on some of my favorite instruments Thomas Greener Ragged But Right KVMR 89.5 FM (USA)
I hear cotton fields, Tom Sawyer, the Mississippi River and the great
American open road in Rambling Steve Gardner's music.”
BIG BIKE CRUSING Magazine (Japan)
“Rambling Steve’s arrangements bring something fresh to the roots and blues tradition and that is every blues man’s greatest responsibility.” Ry Beville, Ko-e Magazine (Japan)
Natchez Food and Wine Festival | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Mississippi Roads partakes of the Natchez Food & Wine Festival. The community spirit of Mississippi Lions Clubs unites an all-state marching band. An investigation into the supernatural takes place in Glenn Allen, where the hunt is on for haunting spirits, and the whimsical spirit found in Stephanie Dwyer's bottle trees is captured.
Terry Harmonica Bean: Hoodoo Man
Terry 'Harmonica' Bean of Pontotoc, MS performing Hoodoo Man at the 2014 MS Blues Marathon Expo in Jackson, MS (01/10/14). (Note: some of my song titles are just guesses--if I have a title wrong please leave the correct name in the comment section.)
Mississippi | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Mississippi
00:03:09 1 Etymology
00:03:29 2 Geography
00:05:59 2.1 Major cities and towns
00:06:42 2.2 Climate
00:09:09 2.3 Ecology, flora, and fauna
00:11:37 2.4 Ecological problems
00:11:46 2.4.1 Flooding
00:15:43 3 History
00:17:32 3.1 Colonial era
00:20:02 3.2 United States territory
00:22:33 3.3 Statehood, 1817–1861
00:25:19 3.4 Civil War to 20th century
00:31:36 3.5 20th century to present
00:40:47 4 Demographics
00:44:36 4.1 Ancestry
00:48:39 4.2 Language
00:49:25 4.3 Religion
00:52:25 4.4 Birth data
00:52:53 4.5 LGBT
00:54:10 5 Health
00:56:30 6 Economy
01:02:19 6.1 Entertainment and tourism
01:04:04 6.2 Manufacturing
01:04:28 6.3 Taxation
01:06:09 6.4 Federal subsidies and spending
01:07:35 7 Politics and government
01:08:35 7.1 Laws
01:09:44 8 Political alignment
01:10:41 9 Transportation
01:10:50 9.1 Air
01:11:09 9.2 Roads
01:11:32 9.3 Rail
01:11:40 9.3.1 Passenger
01:12:06 9.3.2 Freight
01:12:50 9.4 Water
01:12:58 9.4.1 Major rivers
01:13:18 9.4.2 Major bodies of water
01:14:57 10 Media
01:15:06 11 Education
01:20:39 12 Culture
01:21:29 12.1 Music
01:23:40 12.2 Literature
01:23:48 12.3 Sports
01:24:34 13 Notable people
01:24:43 14 See also
01:25:00 15 Footnotes
01:25:09 16 Further reading
01:25:27 17 External links
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- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with 86% of its non-whites living below the poverty level.In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African ...
Mississippi | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Mississippi
00:03:08 1 Etymology
00:03:28 2 Geography
00:05:58 2.1 Major cities and towns
00:06:41 2.2 Climate
00:09:07 2.3 Ecology, flora, and fauna
00:11:34 2.4 Ecological problems
00:11:44 2.4.1 Flooding
00:15:40 3 History
00:17:29 3.1 Colonial era
00:19:57 3.2 United States territory
00:22:27 3.3 Statehood, 1817–1861
00:25:13 3.4 Civil War to 20th century
00:31:27 3.5 20th century to present
00:40:36 4 Demographics
00:44:24 4.1 Ancestry
00:48:26 4.2 Language
00:49:11 4.3 Religion
00:52:11 4.4 Birth data
00:52:38 4.5 LGBT
00:53:56 5 Health
00:56:15 6 Economy
01:02:03 6.1 Entertainment and tourism
01:03:48 6.2 Manufacturing
01:04:12 6.3 Taxation
01:05:52 6.4 Federal subsidies and spending
01:07:18 7 Politics and government
01:08:18 7.1 Laws
01:09:26 8 Political alignment
01:10:23 9 Transportation
01:10:32 9.1 Air
01:10:51 9.2 Roads
01:11:15 9.3 Rail
01:11:23 9.3.1 Passenger
01:11:48 9.3.2 Freight
01:12:32 9.4 Water
01:12:40 9.4.1 Major rivers
01:13:00 9.4.2 Major bodies of water
01:14:39 10 Media
01:14:47 11 Education
01:20:19 12 Culture
01:21:09 12.1 Music
01:23:19 12.2 Literature
01:23:27 12.3 Sports
01:24:13 13 Notable people
01:24:22 14 See also
01:24:39 15 Footnotes
01:24:48 16 Further reading
01:25:05 17 External links
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with 86% of its non-whites living below the poverty level.In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African ...
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with 86% of its non-whites living below the poverty level.In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African Americans, the highest percentage of African Americans in any U.S. state. Since regaining enforcement of their voting rights in the late 1960s, most African Americans have supported Democratic candidates in local, state and national elections. Conservative whites have shifted to the Republican Party. African Americans are a majority in many counties of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an area of historic slave settlement during the plantation era.
Terry Harmonica Bean: Hoochie Coochie Harmonica Bean
Terry Harmonica Bean of Pontotoc, MS performing Hoochie Coochie Man at the 2012 MS Blues Marathon Expo in Jackson, MS (01/06/12). Here are some links for the musician:
Terry Harmonica Bean: Come Back Baby
Terry Harmonica Bean of Pontotoc, MS performing Come Back Baby at the 2012 MS Blues Marathon Expo in Jackson, MS (01/06/12). Here are some links for the musician: