Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.