#Gateway to the Blues Musem

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The Agriculture and Blues Connection

The Mississippi Delta is the heart of where the blues began. The blues began in the fields. They originate from the days of sharecroppers. Before that the slaves sang spiritual field hollers while they worked. American blacks in the early part of the century sang their stories. These stories evolved into what we know today as the blues. This mural is at the Gateway to the Blues Museum in…