{"id":41609,"date":"2017-09-13T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41609"},"modified":"2017-09-13T19:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:13:46","slug":"panny-flautt-mayfield-signing-live-from-the-mississippi-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/panny-flautt-mayfield-signing-live-from-the-mississippi-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Panny Flautt Mayfield Signing &#8220;Live from the Mississippi Delta&#8221; at Off Square Books September 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Live from the Mississippi Delta<\/em> showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from <strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>, <strong>B. B. King<\/strong>, and <strong>ZZ Top<\/strong> to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. <strong>Panny Flautt Mayfield<\/strong>, a lifelong Delta resident from <strong>Tutwiler<\/strong> and an award-winning journalist, documents multiple decades of blues and gospel music in her native land. Her first book collects over two hundred black-and-white and color photographs from a long career of photographing live music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Featuring text by Robert Plant in honor of Mayfield, the book opens with him addressing senior citizens gathered in Tutwiler to honor their town as the birthplace of blues. From there, the book proceeds throughout the Delta from juke joints and festivals to blues markers and museums. Mayfield presents images and tales of local icons such as <strong>Early Wright<\/strong>, <strong>Wade Walton<\/strong>, and the <strong>Jelly Roll Kings<\/strong>, as well as international celebrities. She shares intimate photos, including <strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong> and <strong>Bobby Rush<\/strong> charming elementary school kids in <strong>West Tallahatchie<\/strong>, along with insider stories and photos of B. B. King&#8217;s <strong>Homecoming<\/strong>, the <strong>Governor&#8217;s Awards<\/strong>, the <strong>Delta Blues Museum<\/strong>, the <strong>Sunflower and King Biscuit<\/strong> festivals, and a fascinating side trip to <strong>Norway&#8217;s Notodden Blues Festival<\/strong>, which has a rich sister-city relationship with Clarksdale and the Sunflower Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mayfield will be signing <em>Live From the Mississippi Delta<\/em> at <strong>Off-Square Books<\/strong> September 20 starting at 5 pm.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":41610,"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":[2239],"tags":[5,642,448,4,10910,3,753],"class_list":["post-41609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-off-square-books","tag-oxford","tag-panny-flautt-mayfield","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2016-12-28-panny-flautt.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41609","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\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}