“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.”
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Clarksdale, Mississippi sits at the crossroads of memory and myth, a place where cotton and soybean fields stretch toward the horizon and the blues clubs still hum. But behind the stories about dirty deals made at dusty crossroads, you’ll find the work of real people...
