Suggested Listening for this Entry: "Cross Road Blues" and "Hell Hound on My Tail" by Robert Johnson. "I Can't Be Satisfied", "Rolling Stone" and "Long Distance Call" by Muddy Waters. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Surely, you're not tired of BBQ and beer yet? Prior to leaving D.C., Ips, the Player and I decided we were going to take a side trip from Memphis into the Mississippi Delta in search of blues, hopefully to be heard in a juke joint. For those of you who don't know what a juke joint is, I offer you Wikipedia's very scientific definition: Juke joint (or jook joint) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African American people in the southeastern United States. The term "juke" is believed
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