“I always had a sense of restlessness and a sense of curiosity and dreaming about life beyond,” Sansone says, echoing the wanderlust he’s shared with generations of Mississippi musicians who have taken their talents to new zip codes.
“In my dream world, I was living in London in the sixties and hanging out with The Beatles and The Who and The Kinks,” he says. “But as I got older, I started to realize just how unique of an experience I had. And so many of the great British rock and rollers that I idolized as a teenager, they all dreamed about Mississippi.”
B.B. King, Medgar Evers and activism on the homefront
On the backroads that stretch between Indianola and Jackson, the weight of what Mississippi once was — the long rows of cotton, the silence of fields that once demanded everything from the people who worked them — still hangs in the languid air. Out of those...
