In a small town you have to be resourceful. Well, here is the next candidate for entrepreneur of the year! My dentist would have a coronary if she saw this...I think I see Xmas card potential here. Anyway, I digress.
Today, we visited the three (yes, three) gravesites of Robert Johnson and the grave of "Mississippi" John Hurt. These sites are located near Greenwood Mississippi. Back inFebruary, my friend Ken, kindly agreed to place one of my guitar picks on the grave of Robert Johnson. Ken was planning to visit the grave on the way to New Orleans. I asked him to help me make a physical connection and pay my respects because I never thought I would make it here. Since I did make it here, I felt it was my duty to help another musician make a connection to the Great One. Today, I placed one of Paul Teeter's picks on the grave of Robert Johnson. Paul is a sixteen-year old guitar player who is practising hard and showing great promise. I saw him play two songs at a cancer benefit, in Georgetown, back in April. He played "Red House" by Jimi Hendrix and did a really good job! He's got great tone and a killer vibrato for a dude his age. I hope lots of good mojo comes his way, now that part of him is here.
"Mississippi" John Hurt's grave required some off-roading. Dawn's well honed navigational skills were put to the test but she got us there, perfectly. Also, the Civic managed to survive the challenge. The grave is on a hill-top surrounded by beautiful forest. It is exactly the kind of place you would expect to find John Hurt's grave. Shady and peaceful, with the exception of a frightened Armadillo that went bounding off when we arrived at the spot.
So now I can cross these things off of my life-list. I visited four power-places of the blues today. What a day! Tomorrow we are off to Stephen LeVerre's Blues Heritage Museum(Stephen is the world's foremost expert on Robert Johnson), Greenwood and Leland (birthplace of Jim Henson and Kermit the frog).