In May 2005 my good friend Peter van der Hoek and I went to the southern states of the U.S.A. in search of the blues. In 3½ weeks we traveled from Memphis to New Orleans and from there to Nashville and back to Memphis. Most of the time however we spent in the Mississppi Delta, in the northern part of Mississippi. I was thoroughly prepared for this trip and had enough information for a three-month vacation. We decided to travel without a fixed travel route and booked a hotel only for the first and the last days of our trip. By doing so we created a lot of room for spontaneous activities and very soon that would turn out to be a wise decision. We met a lot of friendly people and experienced the southern hospitality, we visited three music festivals, we were surprised with three private concerts and discovered that the blues is still live and kicking. On the other hand, we also saw the poverty and the decay in rural south, we got impressed by the memorials of slavery, the Civil War, the painful history of segregation and the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement. Less than fifty years ago Mississippi was the stage of one of the darkest periods in American history. Events that deeply affected the southern states. We were very much impressed by this historic entourage, but in spite of all that in this travel report I mainly share all the musical highlights of our tour with you. Johan Spin,  Dronten, The Netherlands (c) Copyright Johan Spin, 2006. [To the travel report]