Road trip USA: Mississippi
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- Road trip USA: Mississippi
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'Nowhere on Earth is more American than the Mississippi delta', according to journalist and author Richard Grant, which is why he decided to make it his home. In search of the spirit of the Deep South, he takes us on a road trip exploring the eccentricities of the region, from the lobby of the famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis to the crossroads in Clarksdale, where legendary guitarist Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. On the way he takes in a gospel service and blues session on a porch, and meets a Chinese store owner with a deep Mississippi drawl.
There is more to Mississippi than folks may think. It is a beautiful state to photograph.
Especially the coast.
Even better to live in
Especially the Northeast corner. Last remnant of the Appalachians. Bluffs and hills. Still pretty and rural.
I'm a Texan, but I travel to or through Mississippi quite regularly. I like MS and its people. I'm tired of MS and other Southern states always getting a bad rap! I've lived all over the U.S. and I don't care too much for the North, as it's a whole other culture up there. I'll take Mississippi any day.
I was raised in Mississippi and New Orleans and I got a kick out of the Asian man with a Mississippi accent. I loved it.
I misread your comment at first and i thohght you said you got kicked out of the store by the asian guy and that you loved it hahahaha
ME!!!!!! I'm Chinese with a southern accent!
YouPlayG Omg same😂😂
New Orleans is a wonderful place, great people, great food, the Creole influence is wonderful. meanwhile you have a weird balance with the crime that it almost seems a criminal's have a moral code that is not seen in any other big city. I love the South, and if it wasn't for Robert Johnson and his predecessors I would not have the music and which I love.
An Asian man with a Mississippi accent 9:15.
I was about to say that crazy lol from California so yea crazy
+A2Kaid Not to mention the Brit in this video has a slight southern accent. haha.
+JasnoGT i noticed that too!!
Me I'm Chinese with a southern accent I live here
Your name sounds more Vietnamese.
Beale Street and the Peabody Hotel AREN'T in Mississippi. Though Beale Street would not exist without Mississippi.
Yeah you're right, but so many people associate Memphis as a part of Mississippi. Mainly because Tennessee really don't claim them.
jzgsk Probably because of Elvis...Close to Tupelo
It's still the DELTA , hence the video centering on the region from Memphis to Vicksburg.
True.
@@jzgsk Many people in Mississippi stay clear of Memphis, there us a lot of crime there
Whats really fucking with me is the asian guy with the southern accent
I know an Asian girl with a delta accent
***** I doubt that is it.... I was raised there also, and it just seems neat to hear an Asian guy with a Mississippi accent.
+Maria°° No, it's just unusual and interesting. One rarely sees it.
Mississippi is great and the people are very gracious and respectful.
There's a beauty to the American South that we just don't have in Canada, and I can't exactly put my finger on it, it's like a feeling.
Having been in the North, which really doesn't feel much different, to the South which feels like a different place, they probably understand.
If you avoid the bad neighborhoods of jackson, Mississippi is a really nice state.
Jax Smith it is
Just avoid Jackson period
Why? Is it not a nice city?
Jackson has it's better side and not so good side. Pretty much, anything on the north west, west and south west is area to stay clear of. If your on the north east, east and south east of Jackson, your fine. Very nice houses there. I was there last august and enjoyed my time there. Everyone was so polite and genteel. I would go back again!
Avoid... So, Why because it's more diverse? If your people of color, avoid rural Mississippi. Especially at night time.
Mississippi is beautiful in it's own kind of way. A lot of scars in it's past, but it's progressing like everywhere in the U.S.
Progressing you where and to what?
just mere scars huh? 🙄
@@b1bo840 Yep
I’m from Ireland and would love to visit the American south one day
I grew up in the Mississippi delta. It was so hot growing up there, one summer while I was at the lake I seen water drinking water.
ROFL!!
Anyone who incorrectly uses "seen" instead of "saw ", is not from Mississippi. Probably Detroit.
You need to come to my desert in AZ if you want to thirst lol
@@Mountainrock70 When it's hot and humid, the heat is 10x worse friend
only in mississipi u gon find a chinese fella with a drawl!!
I was actually gonna comment on that, but I see you beat me to it I, was also amused by that. Not something you see every day!
ME!!!!!! I'm Chinese with a southern accent!
ThatStyle yup
Black Asian, his father was in the military.
My old boss was Chinese, from the Delta. When you look at him before he speaks, you expect Jackie Chan but you get that Delta drawl. It's hilarious to watch people who don't know him hear him for the first time. 😂
Yet I'm still proud to call myself a Mississippian!
I live in Mississippi I was born and raized here and I'm proud to say I have call me what you like I'm country and I aint racist so go ahead calm what you will I don't care we are still apart of the USA so don't we deserve respect too?just saying what I want to say
Raised*
People who actually believe these stereotypes of Mississippi are pretty fun to laugh at. Blows my mind to think how people are so ignorant. You keep fantasizing about how we live in the dark ages and in reality we'll keep progressing (socially & economically) and enjoying the beauty and diversity of the nature, population, etc. which really echoes the real Mississippi, not the one you "outsiders" have envisioned in your silly uneducated minds. Those from Mississippi be proud of where you are from. Black, white, asian, you'd be surprised at how little ethnicity matters to us down here.
wolfmother agreed I live here and it’s not as bad as people make it out to be I should start a channel and vlog everyday about how it actually is
I lived in Jackson for about a year and that wasn't the vibe I got. Whites always told me race was no longer an issue and everything was fine, but I usually got a different story from African Americans I talked to.
I’m kinda afraid of visiting as me and my family are south Asian and I hope we don’t get any racial attacks or anything.
Well said! Mississippi proud!
Paradoxical Box You'd be welcome. But I would advise staying out of Memphis.
Just would like to add, there is more to Mississippi than the delta. Don't get me wrong, love Abe's barbecue and the delta. There's more.
and the TAMALES are the best in the WORLD!!.
Richard Grant should be the spokesperson for Mississippi. I flipping love the way he talks about Mississippi. I could listen to him go on about my heart state for hours.
A a Southerner I believe we're neither more nor less "Racist" than Yankees (definitely less than the media would like you to believe), but I truly believe that we have more and heathier relationships with African Americans than many of folks in the North.
My Great grandmother should have been the archetype racist old white lady, lived in a once semi-prosperous town (now a ghost town) in deep Mississippi with had black maids. But her 3 best friends of maybe 60 years were all black and lived next door and were there with her til she passed at 96.
In the South I think money matters more than the color of your skin. Poor is poor no matter what soil your great-great-great-great-grandparent was born on. And we DO have more poverty unfortunately.
I'm from Cincinnati but I'm staying with family in the delta and the race relations here are way better than the north. At least better than Cincinnati...
Thanks really enjoyed....I grew up in Mississippi & love it....beautiful state....has come a long way....great state...
Nice to see Bill Abel and John Nolden featured. They're a great pairing. Bill's done a lot to capture, record and promote what's left of the traditional blues folk.
Amazing, I know Hoover Lee.he's part of my wife's family and I haven't seen him in 40 years or more. Small world.
That was most enjoyable and interesting. Thank you.
Asian guy with southern shows that we all can live together in peace 😂😂
TheBullionEra yeah? Come to Britain. Gonna explode.
it shows absolutely nothing!
9:12 When you expect an Asian accent so bad but nope lol
9:43 ,, Imma make'em Holla "🤣
"worst schools" Many are, but the ones that have been ranked near the top in the nation are not. Watch it with the generalizations.
Generalizations > rarities
@@donatellosaintandrews531, your screen name is interesting. Saint Andrews' middle school was ranked best in the nation in recent years. Is that a coincidence?
Funny how he goes from southern America accent to English accent in a second.
You move to Mississippi and buy a house the state of Mississippi welcomes you and thank you for showing real talent at the church and the two gentlemen on the front porch playing the Blues you can't get no better than that thanks for posting
Beautiful people at that church
I love my home. I love Mississippi.
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I am from Cleveland, Mississippi and I love the delta. There is no place on earth like the Mississippi Delta!!! Yes we have had our problems and still do to this day but its not like the rest of the world is perfect! I'll wait! Anyway,We are who we are hell that's all I can say, we know our history and yet we try Lord knows we try to get better as the years go by. We just prefer to not be bothered. We come together and enjoy but we do live amongst our own for the most part, and we are ok with that it's everyone else that has a problem with it. The delta is slow moving but we are not unattached to the rest of the world we just like to live life in a different way.
+yuwonder80 I'm from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and would live no where else on this planet, but I do like traveling up towards your area. Hard to believe these to different places are in the same state. Like day & night but we love our Mississippi roots. My mother was raised up that way and I have a cousin that lives in Cleveland now
yuwonder80 me to
I like this and I am from MS and live here now. I like the perspective.
I'm proud to be from Mississippi!
i was born in somalia East Africa, but i was truck driver.. and drove through the south including mississipi and louissiana , it gave me opportunity to look the people and the county particularly south , people are really nice then they show in the media very simple one i was surprised Blacks live in small towns unlike the north where blacks are urbanite live in big cities , usually big towns corrupt culture , language and bussiness that's where people got lost every where in the world. but one thing sad i saw was schools where terrible or non existance and i think that leads to poverty. even whites are mostly truck drivers..
I'm from Mississippi and I'm the most non racist person ever along with many other Mississippians! Times has changed people from Mississippi are the most friendly people ever!
You know...Trump and David Duke said the same thing...
Thank u for sharing ur experience. I loved it.
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Hi
this video was made in 2013 and I must say that yes, all of the authentic blues have essentially vanished. It's been dying for generations, and it breathed its last in around 2014
Kingfish is definitely keeping the Delta blues alive.
I disagree
ohhh you are wonderful.Congratulation
just read Richard Grant's (the guy this video) new book out the delta and it had parts in the book like the ones in the video. so cool!
looks beautiful im way ovr here in lreland but l wanna see this place
Don't any of these documentary guys ever go somewhere besides the delta? How about the Pearl River Resort, Elvis Birthplace, the mounds, or the Natchez Trace?
I think the reason being is because it's the most racially divided. I live in Northeastern MS but have never experienced anything or witnessed any kind of racism, I'm sure there's a little but I've never witnessed any.
I've been targeted by racism before, but it is not as bad as many would think it would be. This is all these outsiders focus on.
@ doctorfeelucky ... I was thinking the same thing; there is a a whole state and all they do is focus on the Blues/Delta and its nearly dead racist past ... I don't get it.
@ olemissman2012 ... I experienced more prejudice from non-Mississippians than any Mississippian. Experienced more harassment from the federal government than the state government ... I don't get it.
I'm surprised they showed a "southern asian" on it.
Top!!!!
Funny how video makes you want to visit this place, but I already live in Missisippi and sometimes you don't notice things right outside your window.
That Asian sounds more southern than my whole family put together at once lmao
thank you for the vídeo.
Good 'ole Mississippi
Mike...... Poor broke trash lazy state...oh" and very racist
@@stevenmotta8207: What garden of altruistic perfection and egalitarian love and tolerance do you hail from?
@@Chittwood2 spare me your b******* grammar.
@@stevenmotta8207: So you thought people from Louisiana and Mississippi were all uneducated clods and hicks? How compassionate and tolerant of you.
Great content !!
Love it
very good !
Love everything about Mississippi
Cadillac John Nolden with Bill Abel are the best!
You could of skipped the marketing for the Peabody.
Looks nice
I hate the documentaries where the entirety of the footage is in the very north or very south of the state, and even some in a different state.
This is one of the best videos I've seen
my kind of people
Nothing more American than Mississippi
people think mississippi is a bad state but it is nice if u learn more about it
Lived just down the road In Clarksdale from the “Crossroads” on Sunflower @Hwy 61.
I was born in Belzoni. Grew up in Jackson. Its definitely humid especially April thru October.
Great video, headed down to Mississippi Monday--perhaps we'll meet.
Please tell me why and what did you do once you got there? Did you enjoy it and was it worth it?
all he went to were the poor parts of mississipppi...
its not that poor we bassicly have a mansion and were concitered poor here
He should have visited the Gulf Coast.
I noticed when Brits do a segment on America they go to the poorest sections of America ... So ghetto Urban areas, poor countrysides ... It's sorta weird.
The entire state is poor. What kinda life are YOU living to think this state is hitting the prosperity strde? Denied facts still exist, even if you don't adhere.
Brit media has a nasty habit of looking for ways to look down on what it considers inferior. Ironically this behavior is driven by an inferiority complex. Many "higher ups" in british society (including the media) havent gotten over the fact that Britain is just another country now, rather than the colonial empire it used to be. These people try to project their insecurities on other peoples and places.
I live in Oxford Mississippi and its better than Atlanta Georgia, no offense to atlantians
I've lived in both. After 5 years in Atlanta, I had to get the hell out. I still miss Oxford very much.
Atlanta is the promised land
Dude, if you never left the Delta, you haven't been to Mississippi.
11:21 HAIL STATE
I love gumbo soup, crawfish pie, jambalaya, daiquiris and of course... po-boys
What he like about Mississippi is every reason why I want to move here!
Wepa mooie man
Should've went to Oxford and Jackson.
Memphis? I did not know this was in Mississippi?
there is a town called Memphis in Mississippi, the bid ones in Tennessee though
Memphis is usually considered the gateway to the Mississippi Delta. That's my guess why they started there.
Memphis is part of the delta. Also Memphis is so distant from Tennessee culture it is really in Mississippi. Besides it lies on the border just on the Tennessee side.
I live in the delta satartia to be exact the majority of scenes in this video I’ve been there and know quite well
There's more to Mississippi than just the delta, which is the poorest region of the state anyway.
Bill Abel, we lived together became pals,years later I saw him with Cadillac Nolan
Grew up in the Delta, or rather, got the better part of my education there. No place like it on earth. The deepest, culturally rich place one can imagine, also one of the poorest. People ask me about my occasional one liners that seem to come out of nowhere - the honest truth is they come from the Delta, where i learned to speak in metaphor.
That’s Memphis not Mississippi. How could you miss that?
I live in Mississippi and it’s not that bad
Beale Street is in TN, not MS.
is it really?
Why are the first three minutes about Tennessee?
FAKE FAKE FAKE! BB KING BBQ RESTAURANT IS IN TENNESEE AND I HAVE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES AND I LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI! HOW RUDE!
True but sippi is better
ISSI GRACIAS POR EL SABADO:):):)
How can I buy the sauce.Kansas.....🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽
I used to find the southern accent so annoying but now i love it cant get enough of that chinese guy in the store lol.
You would think that the folks at the The Guardian would be smart enough to know that Memphis is not in Mississippi and not devote a quarter of the video to it.
He was traveling the Mississippi delta stoopid
My state it not what you think raise here take the good with bad. That everywhere.
If I ever visit America it's gotta be to see Mississippi
Mississippi is the same as all the other states. We are not racial, dumb, and hateful. People talk about bullying, don't, y'all think talking about Mississippi bad is bullying? I would love to visit all the other 49 not to find problems, but to enjoy. You don't have to listen but if you do listen carefully
How is this about Mississippi when the video is showing Memphis? Peabody Hotel, Beale St. that’s in TN
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I live in Tacoma Washington State but am from there
I’m proud to be from Mississippi. I’ve lived here all my life. Mississippi gets a bad rap and I don’t understand why. We have our problems but as a whole Black and white people get very well here. I don’t judge people by the color of their skin but by the spirit in their eyes. Loved the Chinese man with the southern drawl cool!
sayin' you don't understand why mississippi gets a bad rap says everything about you!
Still had deep rooted hatred
When did Memphis become part of Mississippi?
Danger Dolan???
How about a Pakistani with a mississippi drawl? Bet you never met one of those til just right now
Wuow My nemen
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you should rename in Captain Arrogant. Fit's more your view and behaviour.
Doctor heal thyself....
I'm from Mississippi and I got to say the delta is pretty depressing in my opinion. I'm from center Mississippi where there are actually trees not flat empty land
A few union soldiers went in the Peabody hotel covertly at night during the civil war and took a couple of confederate officers in their underwear off to interrogation and the union prison via canoe. Bold move.