There is more to Mississippi than folks may think. It is a beautiful state to photograph.

I'm a Texan, but I travel to or through Mississippi quite regularly. I like MS and its people. I'm tired of MS and other Southern states always getting a bad rap! I've lived all over the U.S. and I don't care too much for the North, as it's a whole other culture up there. I'll take Mississippi any day.

I was raised in Mississippi and New Orleans and I got a kick out of the Asian man with a Mississippi accent. I loved it.

Mississippi is great and the people are very gracious and respectful.

There's a beauty to the American South that we just don't have in Canada, and I can't exactly put my finger on it, it's like a feeling. Having been in the North, which really doesn't feel much different, to the South which feels like a different place, they probably understand.

Mississippi is beautiful in it's own kind of way. A lot of scars in it's past, but it's progressing like everywhere in the U.S.

only in mississipi u gon find a chinese fella with a drawl!!

I’m from Ireland and would love to visit the American south one day

An Asian man with a Mississippi accent 9:15.

Whats really fucking with me is the asian guy with the southern accent

I grew up in the Mississippi delta. It was so hot growing up there, one summer while I was at the lake I seen water drinking water.

People who actually believe these stereotypes of Mississippi are pretty fun to laugh at. Blows my mind to think how people are so ignorant. You keep fantasizing about how we live in the dark ages and in reality we'll keep progressing (socially & economically) and enjoying the beauty and diversity of the nature, population, etc. which really echoes the real Mississippi, not the one you "outsiders" have envisioned in your silly uneducated minds. Those from Mississippi be proud of where you are from. Black, white, asian, you'd be surprised at how little ethnicity matters to us down here.

If you avoid the bad neighborhoods of jackson, Mississippi is a really nice state.

Yet I'm still proud to call myself a Mississippian!

Beale Street and the Peabody Hotel AREN'T in Mississippi. Though Beale Street would not exist without Mississippi.

Richard Grant should be the spokesperson for Mississippi. I flipping love the way he talks about Mississippi. I could listen to him go on about my heart state for hours.

Asian guy with southern shows that we all can live together in peace 😂😂

Amazing, I know Hoover Lee.he's part of my wife's family and I haven't seen him in 40 years or more. Small world.

Thanks really enjoyed....I grew up in Mississippi & love it....beautiful state....has come a long way....great state...

Funny how he goes from southern America accent to English accent in a second.

Just would like to add, there is more to Mississippi than the delta. Don't get me wrong, love Abe's barbecue and the delta. There's more.

I live in Mississippi I was born and raized here and I'm proud to say I have call me what you like I'm country and I aint racist so go ahead calm what you will I don't care we are still apart of the USA so don't we deserve respect too?just saying what I want to say

Nice to see Bill Abel and John Nolden featured. They're a great pairing. Bill's done a lot to capture, record and promote what's left of the traditional blues folk.

You move to Mississippi and buy a house the state of Mississippi welcomes you and thank you for showing real talent at the church and the two gentlemen on the front porch playing the Blues you can't get no better than that thanks for posting

That was most enjoyable and interesting. Thank you.

I loves Mississippi...when ur born in Mississippi it gets in ur blood...Beautiful state ,Beautiful people...👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖

A a Southerner I believe we're neither more nor less "Racist" than Yankees (definitely less than the media would like you to believe), but I truly believe that we have more and heathier relationships with African Americans than many of folks in the North. My Great grandmother should have been the archetype racist old white lady, lived in a once semi-prosperous town (now a ghost town) in deep Mississippi with had black maids. But her 3 best friends of maybe 60 years were all black and lived next door and were there with her til she passed at 96. In the South I think money matters more than the color of your skin. Poor is poor no matter what soil your great-great-great-great-grandparent was born on. And we DO have more poverty unfortunately.

9:12 When you expect an Asian accent so bad but nope lol 9:43 ,, Imma make'em Holla "🤣

I'm from Mississippi and I'm the most non racist person ever along with many other Mississippians! Times has changed people from Mississippi are the most friendly people ever!

I love my home. I love Mississippi.

this video was made in 2013 and I must say that yes, all of the authentic blues have essentially vanished. It's been dying for generations, and it breathed its last in around 2014

I am from Cleveland, Mississippi and I love the delta. There is no place on earth like the Mississippi Delta!!! Yes we have had our problems and still do to this day but its not like the rest of the world is perfect! I'll wait! Anyway,We are who we are hell that's all I can say, we know our history and yet we try Lord knows we try to get better as the years go by. We just prefer to not be bothered. We come together and enjoy but we do live amongst our own for the most part, and we are ok with that it's everyone else that has a problem with it. The delta is slow moving but we are not unattached to the rest of the world we just like to live life in a different way.

I'm proud to be from Mississippi!

Dude, if you never left the Delta, you haven't been to Mississippi.

I like this and I am from MS and live here now. I like the perspective.

Funny how video makes you want to visit this place, but I already live in Missisippi and sometimes you don't notice things right outside your window.

Beautiful people at that church

"worst schools" Many are, but the ones that have been ranked near the top in the nation are not. Watch it with the generalizations.

You could of skipped the marketing for the Peabody.

Love everything about Mississippi

i was born in somalia East Africa, but i was truck driver.. and drove through the south including mississipi and louissiana , it gave me opportunity to look the people and the county particularly south , people are really nice then they show in the media very simple one i was surprised Blacks live in small towns unlike the north where blacks are urbanite live in big cities , usually big towns corrupt culture , language and bussiness that's where people got lost every where in the world. but one thing sad i saw was schools where terrible or non existance and i think that leads to poverty. even whites are mostly truck drivers..

people think mississippi is a bad state but it is nice if u learn more about it

just read Richard Grant's (the guy this video) new book out the delta and it had parts in the book like the ones in the video. so cool!

Thank u for sharing ur experience. I loved it.

ohhh you are wonderful.Congratulation

This is one of the best videos I've seen

That Asian sounds more southern than my whole family put together at once lmao

Great content !!

Good 'ole Mississippi

thank you for the vídeo.

looks beautiful im way ovr here in lreland but l wanna see this place

Nothing more American than Mississippi

Cadillac John Nolden with Bill Abel are the best!

very good !

Top!!!!

Love it

my kind of people

all he went to were the poor parts of mississipppi...

Looks nice

Great video, headed down to Mississippi Monday--perhaps we'll meet.

Lived just down the road In Clarksdale from the “Crossroads” on Sunflower @Hwy 61.

I was born in Belzoni. Grew up in Jackson. Its definitely humid especially April thru October.

What he like about Mississippi is every reason why I want to move here!

Don't any of these documentary guys ever go somewhere besides the delta? How about the Pearl River Resort, Elvis Birthplace, the mounds, or the Natchez Trace?

I love gumbo soup, crawfish pie, jambalaya, daiquiris and of course... po-boys

I hate the documentaries where the entirety of the footage is in the very north or very south of the state, and even some in a different state.

I live in Oxford Mississippi and its better than Atlanta Georgia, no offense to atlantians

Wepa mooie man

Should've went to Oxford and Jackson.

Grew up in the Delta, or rather, got the better part of my education there. No place like it on earth. The deepest, culturally rich place one can imagine, also one of the poorest. People ask me about my occasional one liners that seem to come out of nowhere - the honest truth is they come from the Delta, where i learned to speak in metaphor.

You would think that the folks at the The Guardian would be smart enough to know that Memphis is not in Mississippi and not devote a quarter of the video to it.

Bill Abel, we lived together became pals,years later I saw him with Cadillac Nolan

11:21 HAIL STATE

There's more to Mississippi than just the delta, which is the poorest region of the state anyway.

I’m proud to be from Mississippi. I’ve lived here all my life. Mississippi gets a bad rap and I don’t understand why. We have our problems but as a whole Black and white people get very well here. I don’t judge people by the color of their skin but by the spirit in their eyes. Loved the Chinese man with the southern drawl cool!

Mississippi is the same as all the other states. We are not racial, dumb, and hateful. People talk about bullying, don't, y'all think talking about Mississippi bad is bullying? I would love to visit all the other 49 not to find problems, but to enjoy. You don't have to listen but if you do listen carefully

I live in Mississippi and it’s not that bad

That’s Memphis not Mississippi. How could you miss that?

I used to find the southern accent so annoying but now i love it cant get enough of that chinese guy in the store lol.

I live in the delta satartia to be exact the majority of scenes in this video I’ve been there and know quite well

FAKE FAKE FAKE! BB KING BBQ RESTAURANT IS IN TENNESEE AND I HAVE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES AND I LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI! HOW RUDE!

Memphis? I did not know this was in Mississippi?

If I ever visit America it's gotta be to see Mississippi

ISSI GRACIAS POR EL SABADO:):):)

Beale Street is in TN, not MS.

Mississippi is a great state no racism any more

The Mississippi Delta runs from Vicksburg MS/Yazoo MS and it ends in Memphis TN. Highway 61 the blues highway runs from Memphis to Vicksburg a straight shot.. Highway 49 runs from Yazoo to Clarksdale and or Tunica but it connects with 61 thats why Memphis is mentioned in the documetary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn...a chinese guy with a southern accent. I couldnt have imagined that.

I live in Tacoma Washington State but am from there

Okay the Chinese couple with the deep southern accents threw me off lol

I am a Belzonian. I live in NY now. The difference is that down there, people of color are still regarded as human beings. You want to be respected as an American, you speak American. E-bonics needs to go out the window. I'm no litterbug, but certain things need to go. BTW The asian folks in that country store speak better english than the majority of people up here in the NE. Thanks for the video.

Asian with a deep southern accent... no where but American love... damn it boy!!!!!

Wuow My nemen

I'm from Mississippi and I got to say the delta is pretty depressing in my opinion. I'm from center Mississippi where there are actually trees not flat empty land

Thanks for sharing, I'm from Jackson,MS.

is it really?

Mississippi do got the highest black population tho

America's Crossroad perhaps?

How about a Pakistani with a mississippi drawl? Bet you never met one of those til just right now