Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Jerry Lee Lewis and the Delta Blues Museum

Jean's journal continues..
Another beautiful morning and nothing to rush about for. We decided to go along to the next village, Farraday, to the Delta Blues Museum.

Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Farraday and a 77-year old lady who has lived there all her life gave us the tour.
She was great and had lots of background information and snippets of gossip which brought it all to life. This was all free and much more enjoyable than we'd expected. We were surprised at how many of the old singers were remembered here - Conway Twitty, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Percy Sledge etc etc. We had lunch in a diner our guide had recommended - BBQ chicken, candied yams, beans, potato salad and coleslaw with ice-packed cokes to drink - proper Southern food and very enjoyable.

After lunch, we spent the afternoon just lounging about - me in the sun and the other guys in the shade as usual. At about 4, we all (including Chloe) headed to Fat Mama's Tamales Restaurant which we'd read about in the guidebook. Tamales are sort of cornbread wraps filled with chilli con carne but we had the 'Gringo Pie' which was 3 tamales topped with more chilli, jalapenos and onion - different and very nice.

We sat outside on the patio and Gordon, John & Debs had 'Knock you Naked' Margueritas but I only had a light beer, not being a Margueritas fan. Finished the evening watching the lazy river and then watched a movie called "Blaze" about a Southern politician based in Louisiana.

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