Ron Anton Rocz Photography

Mississippi Delta & Blues Collection


The Mississippi Delta - south of Memphis, north of Vicksburg, and between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers - is known as "The Land Where the Blues Began." The music of the plantation slaves, share-croppers, river levy and railway line laborers emerged as work songs and then evolved into "the blues."

This photography collection, while created at the start of the 2000's, gives glimpses into the life and time of the early 1900's, when names like Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King had their start in The Delta. These photographs were created mainly around Clarksdale, Mississippi and at the Hopson Plantation and it's famed Shack-Up Inn.

Window on Delta Blues

Morgan Freeman's Blues Club

Cotton Field Blues

Crossroads at Clarksdale


Cotton Gin Window

Cotton Horizon

Chevy Share Cropper Cabins


Freeman's Blues Club #2

Cotton Ball

Freeman's Blues Club #3


Shack & Cotton Fields #2

Beale Street Club

Shack & Cotton Fields #3


Po' Monkey's Juke Joint

Tommy Gilmore in Sepia

Three Generatioins Trackside


Willie King at Home

Cotton Gin Texaco

Dockery Farm


Railway Blues

Share Cropper Blues

Sheriff & Share Croppers


Plantation Blues

Plantation Church Pews

Shack & Cotton Fields


The Commissary

B B King Marker at Leland MS

Tallahatchie Flats


Cotton Field Monuments

Chevy 3100 Blues

Share Cropper Laundry


Delta Gothic

Delta Land Gospel Gothic

Delta Gothic Interior


Freeman's Club's Stage

Tommy Gilmore

Robert Johnson Crossroads


Dawn on the Bayou

Hopson Plantation Commissary

Dawn on the Plantation


Beale Street Blues Babe

James "Son" Thomas

Beale Street Blues Bar


Po' Monkey's Juke Joint 2

Tommy of Choctaw MS

Willie King in His House


Juke Joint Mystery Door

Juke Joint Lady's Room


B B King Mural Leland MS

Blues Hwy Mural Leland MS


Delta Blues History Triptych

Robert Johnson, Crossroads, & Muddy Waters

Beale Street Blues, Tryptich

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