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>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock 'n' roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one state -- mississippi. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on m...

This place one state mississippi. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno right now were in the middle of downtown jackson. Farish street. Anthony it is a street with a lot of history. What did it used to be like back in the day . Geno the street was packed with folks. Folks all over, they had their own restaurants, grocery stores, juke joints. I mean everything happened on farish street that happened in j...

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