{"id":33751,"date":"2016-05-18T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=33751"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:35:04","slug":"magnolia-vagabond-no-12-mythical-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/magnolia-vagabond-no-12-mythical-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Vagabond No. 12: Mythical Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWatching Son House perform bottleneck guitar was akin to seeing a locomotive on a downhill run…\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

– Jas Obrecht, blues scholar<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Back in 1988, when my head was so far up my hindquarters I failed to notice that Son House<\/strong> passed away in Detroit Rock City, I was trying to persuade a friend to road trip with me to Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be mythical,\u201d I said in a final, last minute pitch before heading out in a brand new Chevy Celebrity station wagon, bought for carpool, used for indiscretion, the kind Son worried about in \u201cLevee Camp Moan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou treat me low down and dirty, baby, that\u2019s the way you do\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A vacuum tube broker and natural skeptic, my friend wanted to know just how, precisely, it would be mythical.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could not tell him\u2014who can predict the ways in which nine innings of narrative will end\u2014and the nearly 30-year-old memories of Tupelo and Oxford and Hattiesburg, do not include him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy reasons for not going are lost to me now,\u201d he said. \u201cI can only say that when I travel I prefer dogs to people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Which would have put him right at home among the philosophers of the Great Magnolia State.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWatching Son House perform bottleneck guitar was akin to seeing a locomotive on a downhill run…\u201d – Jas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":33403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[3112,8564,8563,642,4,5819,3,753],"class_list":["post-33751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-writing","tag-alvarez","tag-detroit-rock-city","tag-magnolia-vagabond","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-son-house","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-02-magnoliavagabond.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}