Indianola, Mississippi.
Otha C and his wife Linda work at his sister’s famous restaurant, Betty’s Place, in Indianola, Mississippi, birthplace of Blues legend BB King. In fact, Betty fed BB for more than 25 years- corn bread, catfish sandwiches, peach cobbler.
Selma, Alabama.
Lowndes County, Alabama, is so gorgeous the emerald poplar trees drip with liquid gold at sunset. It is also so poor that resident's sewage is flushed directly into the front lawn. Hard to imagine such extreme poverty inside the world's wealthiest nation.
There are songs we take for pure pleasure. Music that accompanies the 4 am rendezvous in strange, slightly dangerous cities where seductive alien-looking people speak in tongues and neon lights bleed like rivers on rain-soaked cobble-stone streets.
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