Thoughts and Works in Progress

The Delta Blues and Dockery Plantation

Considered the birthplace of the blue, important artists in blues history either lived at or passed through Dockery Farms

Historic Jamestowne, Virginia

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: Historic Jamestowne, VA What was: In 1607, Jamestown is where the English established their first permanent in the New World. For a long time the actual site of Jamestown was believed to have washed into the James River by erosion…

A Roadside Story…without a story

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

A roadside America story, without a story.

The Dockery Gas Station, Mississippi Delta

Binhammer Photographs, Music History Photo Stories, Roadside America Photo Series

ockery Farms is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (sold his soul to the develi) and Howlin' Wolf and Pop Staples (Dad to the Staples Singers)

Po Monkey’s Juke Joint

Binhammer Photographs, Music History Photo Stories, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

Po Monkey's one of the last rural juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, wedged between a cotton field and a gravel road

Muscle Shoals, Tennessee River, Florence, Alabama

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Muscle Shoals. "The river that sings." The local tribes believed that a female spirit lived there. According to legend, she would sing and protect the people around her. This legend is offered up as one of the many reasons for the area's near mythical status as a recording mecca for Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Staples Singers, Percy Sledge and the Rolling Stones