Welcome to Junior's Juke Joint!

I'm a cultural anthropologist who lives in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana side, and I spend lots of time in Delta juke joints. You're about to take a trip inside the places where the blues began. I'm not talking about white people blues bars filled with college students. I'm talking about edge-of-a-cotton-field juke joints filled with real Delta folks.

Here in Junior's Juke Joint you'll find pictures of, stories about, and even maps to Delta places the local chambers of commerce never heard of. (Heck, let's face facts: if the chambers knew about those places they'd want to shut them down.)

ZZ's Lounge
383 Bayou Drive
Ferriday, LA 71334
(318) 757-8854

Here's the front of ZZ's. That's ZZ Dunmore on the left and Herbert Williams from the Disco 86 in Waterproof on the right.

The front door of ZZ's is on the side of the building, just beyond the right edge of the photo. When I took this photo I was standing in the middle of Bayou Drive, a narrow and winding street. A few steps backward, and I would have tripped over the guardrail and went for an unexpected swim in the bayou.

ZZ is mad at me because I didn't give her time to move that garbage sack filled with beer cans.
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