Photographing, and Curing, the Blues in the Mississippi Delta

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Photographing, and Curing, the Blues in the Mississippi Delta

A road trip that started with heartache and a search for authentic blues led a photographer to the heart of the Mississippi Delta and its families.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/photographing-and-curing-the-blues-in-the-mississippi-delta/

Brandon Thibodeaux was nursing a broken heart in 2009 when he stopped in the Mississippi Delta to look for a project that might salve the pain of a breakup. He was riding his bicycle along a winding farm road, following a series of white, hand-painted signs nailed to trees that read “Travel Rest Mount Baptist Church” until he came to a white clapboard church by a small cemetery.