These Tamales From the Mississippi
Legend has it blues player Robert Johnson offered his spirit to the fiend at an intersection in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In return, he was honored (or reviled?) with wild melodic ability. He composed blues numbers like his tamale tribute, "They're Red Hot." Today in that equivalent town, a large portion of a mile down State Street you'll locate Hicks' World Famous Hot Tamales, where owner Eugene Hicks, presently 75, figured out how to make tamales when he was around 12 years of age. He's been making them from that point onward.