You Don't Visit the Mississippi Delta; You Soak In It

Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center on Highway 61 in Tunica, Mississippi (photo by Sheila Scarborough) (I was a guest of the Mississippi Delta Tourism Association on this trip; almost all of my travel expenses were paid for by them.) Prince’s “Purple Rain” came out in 1984. 31 years later, 16-year-old blues guitar phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram wailed away at his version of the song, on the front porch stage of the converted 1800s wooden railroad depot tha…