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Panny Flautt Mayfield's book is a journey through years of Mississippi Delta blues history. Filled with rare, personal encounters and unique moments, it proves how close she has been to both people and places. Live from the Mississippi Delta gives me a greater understanding of life in and around the blues, and it shows the importance of Mississippi in the history of blues. This book will have a special place on my bookshelf--and will live with me all my life. --Rita Engedalen

PANNY MAYFIELD A journalist, documentarian, collector of stories and fables- knower of families and dynasties . . . capturer of the moment, then, now, and beyond . . .Charming and erudite she crosses the unspoken divide . . . the social and emotional negotiations everyone must make in the Delta . . . Her photographs and ledgers are a testimony to the care and love of her peoples, their histories, and their mysterious homeland. - Robert Plant The Mississippi Delta is a special place. It's not like any other place. It's a place you feel . . . and you can't really describe that feeling. Many people try to explain it, but it's hard to nail down. Tennessee Williams did it in his plays. You get another glimpse of the Delta listening to Muddy Waters when he was recorded on Stovall Plantation. Now Panny Mayfield has done it with her photos. She has `the eye' for catching glimpses of the Delta that ring true and give us another view of this enchanting place. I've often said `the center of the heart of the South is right on Panny Mayfield's front porch.' If you want to get a feel for it, you can get it from Panny's wonderful photos that capture the spirit of the Delta. - Charlie Musselwhite Live from the Mississippi Delta is an important and original addition to the literature of the blues. Panny Mayfield offers a unique window on the blues culture of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and its Delta environs over the past three decades or so. A warm-hearted but unsentimental enthusiast, she allows Clarksdale's contemporary blues culture to be the quirky and inimitable place it actually is-a place where a rock star like Robert Plant can find himself photographed in mid-dance-step in a roughhewn black juke. Although I consider myself reasonably conversant with the history of Clarksdale during this period and many of the main figures who show up here, I still learned a lot that I didn't know about the black and white musicians and other blues people encompassed by Mayfield's delightful tour and about the Delta that she knows so well. - Adam Gussow Panny Flautt Mayfield's book is a journey through years of Mississippi Delta blues history. Filled with rare, personal encounters and unique moments, it proves how close she has been to both people and places. Live from the Mississippi Delta gives me a greater understanding of life in and around the blues, and it shows the importance of Mississippi in the history of blues. This book will have a special place on my bookshelf-and will live with me all my life. - Rita Engedalen

PANNY MAYFIELD A journalist, documentarian, collector of stories and fables- knower of families and dynasties ... capturer of the moment, then, now, and beyond ...Charming and erudite she crosses the unspoken divide ... the social and emotional negotiations everyone must make in the Delta ... Her photographs and ledgers are a testimony to the care and love of her peoples, their histories, and their mysterious homeland. - Robert Plant The Mississippi Delta is a special place. It's not like any other place. It's a place you feel ... and you can't really describe that feeling. Many people try to explain it, but it's hard to nail down. Tennessee Williams did it in his plays. You get another glimpse of the Delta listening to Muddy Waters when he was recorded on Stovall Plantation. Now Panny Mayfield has done it with her photos. She has 'the eye' for catching glimpses of the Delta that ring true and give us another view of this enchanting place. I've often said 'the center of the heart of the South is right on Panny Mayfield's front porch.' If you want to get a feel for it, you can get it from Panny's wonderful photos that capture the spirit of the Delta. - Charlie Musselwhite Live from the Mississippi Delta is an important and original addition to the literature of the blues. Panny Mayfield offers a unique window on the blues culture of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and its Delta environs over the past three decades or so. A warm-hearted but unsentimental enthusiast, she allows Clarksdale's contemporary blues culture to be the quirky and inimitable place it actually is-a place where a rock star like Robert Plant can find himself photographed in mid-dance-step in a roughhewn black juke. Although I consider myself reasonably conversant with the history of Clarksdale during this period and many of the main figures who show up here, I still learned a lot that I didn't know about the black and white musicians and other blues people encompassed by Mayfield's delightful tour and about the Delta that she knows so well. - Adam Gussow Panny Flautt Mayfield's book is a journey through years of Mississippi Delta blues history. Filled with rare, personal encounters and unique moments, it proves how close she has been to both people and places. Live from the Mississippi Delta gives me a greater understanding of life in and around the blues, and it shows the importance of Mississippi in the history of blues. This book will have a special place on my bookshelf-and will live with me all my life. - Rita Engedalen

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Panny Flautt Mayfield, Clarksdale, Mississippi, a lifelong resident of the Mississippi Delta, is an award-winning journalist who has been photographing blues and gospel musicians at festivals, clubs, churches, and juke joints for decades. Her collections have been exhibited in museums across the United States and Europe and have earned critical acclaim from Aperture magazine. She has been recognized with more than thirty awards of excellence from the Mississippi Press Association, the Associated Press, the Mississippi Film Commission, and the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi.

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