“This book’s subtitle is intentionally, in blues fashion, a double entendre. On the one hand, it offers an assessment of the contemporary Mississippi blues scene—its musicians, festivals, venues, fans, and holy sites—in both image and prose.  And on the other hand, it alludes to the fact that over one hundred years after its emergence, the blues remains inextricably connected in the public mind with Mississippi.” -from Scott Barretta’s essay featured in Mississippi: State of Blues.