I’ve just returned home to Sussex after spending eight wonderful days touring the Mississippi delta. Visiting many of the places that I’ve been singing about in blues tunes for over thirty years.

Although I’ve visited the United States in the past I’d never had the opportunity to visit Mississippi. Anyone who knows anything about blues music will know that the Mississippi Delta is where it all comes from.

The tour started off in Memphis which is packed with some fantastic antique stores and some exceptional music stores. I could resist spending nearly a whole day playing a whole load of National Resonator guitars originating from the 1930s. I imagined all the old blues players who would have once played these iconic instruments.

The tour took me and my fellow blues-fiends to Clarksdale where we visited the world famous Delta Blues Museum. We took a drive down the famous Highway 61 to the infamous Hopson plantation. This is where many ultimately famous blues musicians once worked picking cotton.

We visited Cleveland and then on to Greenville and Leland and then stopped at Indianola which is the hometown of legendary blues musician B.B.King.

It was a truly exceptional, magical and spiritual trip for me. My love for blues music has been deepened with a better appreciation of the land from which this fantastic music was born.