VOA Chinese, June 309, 2010 (by 徐重伟)
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/origination/20100625-Mississippi-Delta-Blues-97503304.html
Note:
(a) 罗伯特·约翰逊 Robert Johnson (musician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(musician)
(1911-1938)
* U.S. Route 61
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_61
("The junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale is designated as the famous crossroads where, according to legend, Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues")
(b) 三角洲蓝调博物馆 Delta Blues Museum (Clarksdale, Mississippi)
http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/
(c) Blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
(The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and
sadness)
(d) Mamie Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith
(1883-1946)
(e) 佃农 sharecropper (n): "a tenant farmer especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges"
www.m-w.com
(f) 河畔旅馆 Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Mississippi)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Hotel_(Clarksdale,_Mississippi)
(g) “凯迪拉克”约翰·诺顿 "Cadillac" John Nolden
http://www.arts.state.ms.us/folklife/artist.php?dirname=nolden_john
("Around 1970 he was inspired to take up the blues again to help alleviate the pain he felt after his wife abruptly left him. 'She even took the curtains from the windows,' he recalls")
(h) 史蒂夫“闪电”麦坎尔 Steve Lightnin' Malcolm
(i) Muddy Waters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters
("McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913-April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered 'the Father of Chicago blues'")
* The report inadvertently dropped "s" at the end of "Waters."
** Mannish Boy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannish_Boy
(j) RL伯恩赛德 R. L. Burnside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Burnside
(1926-2005; born Robert Lee Burnside in Mississippi; grandson Cedric Burnside 塞德瑞克·伯恩赛德)
(k) 希欧. 戴希巴克/ 博物馆 Theo D “The Boogieman”/ Rock & Blues Museum
http://www.blues2rock.com/Blues2Rock/Home.html
((113 East 2nd Street, Clarksdale, Mississippi)
(l) John Lee Hooker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker
(1917-2001; born near Clarksdale, Mississippi)