The fabled Mississippi Delta is a small, alluvial flood plain between Memphis Tennessee and Vicksburg Mississippi – the home of the blues and rock and roll. Unlike your average river delta (note the small ‘d’) it’s not at the junction between a river and the sea.
The House Of Blues is Orlando’s tribute to the Delta. This door is flanked by the crossroads at Clarksdale, immortalised in several songs, and a map where the Delta appears as a soil-coloured triangle. The path of the Mississippi River is indicated by a gap in the artwork, letting us see through to the wooden boards.
This shows the door in context, before the doors open for the day, looking like the stage set it is. The real-life Delta is changing rapidly, my Delta-born friends tell me: many of its towns and cities are less vibrant than a few decades ago, even as the region’s musical legacy spreads out around the world.
The other doors from The House Of Blues are beautifully designed too. I haven’t mastered the knack of getting everything straight, have I? – but I wanted to share them anyway.
This close up shows the custom-decorated bottles you can make out dimly over the door on the right, pictured above. It intrigues me how well these wine bottle paint jobs work together: it’s a masterclass in how to mix and match colours and patterns. The shelf, ceiling and wall has oodles of Delta chic too.
I’m submitting this to Norm’s Doors. Please take a look at the other submissions if you have chance.
Susan Rushton 
Thanks for sharing these photos. I would love to see this myself sometime. Great response to the Photo Challenge.
My pleasure! I hope you make it before too long.
Fabulously decorated doors and custom-made bottles. Looks like a fun place. Nice photos!
Donna
Very much so – thanks, Donna.
Most interesting. I liked your photos with all the different colors.
The distressed texture effects are nice too, especially on the Highway US 61 door.
I love these!
Thanks!
A nice take on this challenge, which is flummoxing me this week.
I have those weeks too. I saw several people observing that combination of delta and change was like the recent prompt ‘transient’. I skipped that one. I know flowers are all transient but I’ve been reading the news too often. Thinking about transience at the moment gives me the kind of brain freeze you might associate with eating way too much ice cream.
This excellent post puts me in mind of The Troubadour as immortalised in Tom Paxton’s ‘Leaving London’.
I hadn’t heard that song, Derrick, but I enjoyed it. Thanks!
Wow. My eyes are running all over the place, trying to take everything in. Thank you for showing me “Delta chic” — I had no idea!
There’s a lot going on isn’t there? It amuses me how the fans appear in slow motion in the top two shots. I didn’t think about that at the time.
Fans? There are fans? (That’s what I said to myself.) Of course I had to come back to look. My eyes just couldn’t do it all. Besides which, I was completely taken with “mythic door” — that was more than enough for my perceptive abilities in one moment. I love the concept.
Excellent. Getting everything straight has never been more overrated. 🙂
You’re very kind 🙂
I’m familiar with RA Miller’s “Blow Oscar” folk art, but Elvis with the scary eyebrows is new to me. He fits right in, doesn’t he?
He does – though I can’t imagine the ladies swooning over this wooden one in quite the same way.
Wow, really interesting!
I love places where artists and designers all seem to be in plain view, doing what a jazz musician might call riffing.
Most interesting!
There were a lot more details to capture, but in places like this, photography isn’t the main attraction, more of a side trip.
Love the decorated bottles!
Me too. They’re a little dusty, but the colours are delicious – they remind me of the ones used for macarons.