The name ‘Mississippi Millie’ has become synonymous with the original Delta Blues. A child born with a veil over her face, indicating a sixth sense, delivered by her midwife grandmother into a family of six children, Millie remembers not just the hymns she heard the choir sing in the Baptist church where her mother played piano, but also the ‘Devil’s Music’ she heard in the Delta Juke Joints. “They called it the Blues,” says Millie, “and to me it sounded as natural as the willows above and the rich earth below. I would sneak into the local party houses and rundown joints every chance I could, so I could get up on stage and sing with the ‘bad boys.’ They called me the ‘little girl with the big voice.’ Millie McClaine has been belting out the original Delta Blues for decades. Sharing the stage with many Read More …