Bringin' It All Back Home

PHOTO ESSAY Bringin' It All Back Home by Roland L Freeman with additional photo· by Robert T. Jones, Jr. top: Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (1936—1996), center, electrifying the crowd on the seventh Delta Blues Cruise. Greenville, Mississippi, 1983. © 199J, Robert Tfones,Jr. previous page: Willie Foster. Greenville, Mississippi, 199-7. © 1997, RolandL. Freeman. 64 ROLAND L. FREEMAN Bo Diddley at the sixth Mississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1983.© 1997, Robert T. Jones,Jr. Bringin' ItAllBack Home 65 Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Musicians jamming at the sixth Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1983. C 1997, Robert T. Jones, Jr. 66 ROLAND L. FREEMAN Ijmnie Pitchford, left, playing bassforRobert "Jr." Lockwood, right, at thefourth Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1981. © 1997, Robert T. Jones,Jr. Bringin'ItAIlBack Home 67 Willie Dixon (191J-1992). Greenville, Mississippi, 1979. © 1997, Robert T.Jones,Jr. 68 ROLAND L. FREEMAN MississippiFife andDrum Bandatthe eighth MississippiDelta Blues andHeritage Festival, Othar Turner, JessieMae Hemphill, andAbe Young, leftto right. Greenville, Mississippi, 198;. © 1997, Robert TJones,Jr. B.B. King thanking hisfans.Jackson, Mississippi, 197j. © 1997, RolandL Freeman. 70 ROLAND L. FREEMAN Left to right Hammie Nixon (1908—1984), harmonica, ka^po, andjugplayer; Ms. Van Hunt, vocalist; andEugene Powell, guitarist at the secondMississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1979. © 1997, RolandL Freeman. Bringin'ItAIlBack Home 71 top: Luanda andEddie Cusic. IMand, Mississippi, 1997. © 1997, RolandL. Freeman. opposite: BigJoe Williams (1903—1982) at thefirst Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1978. © 1997, Roland L. Freeman. Bringin'ItAIlBack Home 73 Walter "Furry" lewis (1893—1981) at thefirstMississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1978. © 1997, Roland L Freeman. 74 ROLAND L. FREEMAN Utile Marcellus at thefirstMississippi Delta Blues andhleritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1978.© 1997, RolandL Freeman. Bringin' ItAllBack Home 7 5 BudSpires andJack Owens, top left to right, Alan Ijimax and Worth Long,foreground, at thefirst Mississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1978. © 1997, RolandL. Freeman. 76 ROLAND L. FREEMAN Jim Dickenson sings blues songs ofJimmy Rodgers at thefirstMississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1978. © 1997, RolandL. Freeman. Bringin' ItAllBack Home 77 Lynn White at the sixth Mississippi Delta Blues andHeritage Festival. Greenville, Mississippi, 1983.© 1997, Roland L. Freeman. ...