ABSTRACT
Though most outsiders have heard of New Orleans, fewer know about the more isolated and deeply impoverished communities near our Mississippi River Delta—towns such as Lake Providence, Tallulah, St. Joseph, Rayville, Goodwill, Delhi, Forest, Pioneer, and Waterproof. This is where the blues was born and where it is lived today. Here among the cotton fields, swamps, and juke joints is a wild frontier of creative therapy.
