National Geographic Society

  • Connect:

Diggin' the Blues

Published
  • King George Wyant and Tim Ringy Saylor wrap up a successful day of detecting at Muddy Water's old home site in Stovall, Mississippi. If there is a birthplace for the blues, it would be here in the Mississippi Delta. Muddy Waters is known as the father of Chicago Blues and got his nickname as a child.
  • KG and Ringy detecting where Muddy Water's use to live hoping they find something special he left behind. Will they find his harmonica reed? How about some old guitar strings?
  • KG and Ringy arrive at Dockery Farms, a place that use to be a hughe old cotton plantation from the early twentieth century.
  • KG gets a little hungry during his dig.
  • Bill Lester, the Director of the Dockery Farms Foundation, gives KG and Ringyr a tour around the property.
  • The crossroads in Mississippi is a famous location known to be walked down by the king of the delta Blues, Robert Johnson. KG and Ringy bump into each other at the famous crossroads hoping to dig up something worth singing about. The boys decide to make a bet that whoever digs up the best nectar at the next place gets to watch the other guy actually sing the blues down at a famous blues joint.
  • KG plays peek-a-boo as the boys take a break from detecting.
  • KG and Ringy may be competitive, but they're still best friends. Here they are sitting at the Ground Zero Blues Club

  • Muddy Dig

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    “King” George Wyant and Tim “Ringy” Saylor wrap up a successful day of detecting at Muddy Water's old home site in Stovall, Mississippi. If there is a birthplace for the blues, it would be here in the Mississippi Delta. Muddy Waters is known as the father of Chicago Blues and got his nickname as a child.

  • Looking For Old Instruments

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    KG and Ringy detecting where Muddy Water's use to live… hoping they find something special he left behind. Will they find his harmonica reed? How about some old guitar strings?

  • Diggin' Up Some Blues

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

     KG and Ringy arrive at Dockery Farms, a place that use to be a hughe old cotton plantation from the early twentieth century.

  • KG Tastes the Nectar

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    KG gets a little hungry during his dig.

  • Plantation Tour

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Bill Lester, the Director of the Dockery Farms Foundation, gives KG and Ringyr a tour around the property.

  • Loser Sings the Blues

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    The crossroads in Mississippi is a famous location known to be walked down by the king of the delta Blues, Robert Johnson. KG and Ringy bump into each other at the famous crossroads hoping to dig up something worth singing about. The boys decide to make a bet that whoever digs up the best nectar at the next place gets to watch the other guy actually sing the blues down at a famous blues joint.

  • Taking a Break

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    KG plays peek-a-boo as the boys take a break from detecting.

  • Best Friends

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    KG and Ringy may be competitive, but they're still best friends. Here they are sitting at the Ground Zero Blues Club.

0 comments
  Livefyre
Newest | Oldest