Tag: Dockery Farms
The Cream and the Blues
Roots musician Rosanne Cash visits Dockery Farms and reflects on the Mississippi region that inspired her music.
Rosanne Cash Plays Dockery Farms Benefit Concert on June 6
Dockery Farms, just east of Cleveland, Mississippi, is regarded as the birthplace of the blues. In the late 1800s, Will Dockery bought the former swampland to farm timber; later, he had it drained and...