I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

There's an affinity for those Delta areas because it's home for so many.

This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi,