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Real fanatics come.
Besides drawing blues devotees on pilgrimage, the museum attracts children on school trips and tourists from around the world to Clarksdale, the seat of Mississippi Delta blues. Blues legends like Son House, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters lived or played thereabouts as have countless lesser-known bluesmen. The blues and its influence on jazz and rock and roll are celebrated at the museum. The museum sponsors concerts and runs a year round program to teach young people to perform the blues. The museum s collection has been growing since 1979, many of its pieces donated by musicians.