The Delta Blues Museum sits in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the flat cotton country where the Delta Blues took shape, and this film narrated by Morgan Freeman walks through what the museum keeps: instruments, photographs, and recordings tied to the musicians who worked the fields and played the juke joints along Highway 61. Freeman's narration traces the genre back to its roots in slavery-era work songs and spirituals, following how those forms hardened into the Blues as sharecroppers carried guitars from porch to juke joint to radio station. The film uses the museum's exhibits as a structure for the larger history, showing how a regional sound tied to one stretch of Mississippi delta land spread outward into rock and roll, soul, and rhythm and blues. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV, it stays close to the museum itself rather than ranging into interviews with musicians, treating the building and its collection as the record of a musical tradition that started in hardship and never left it behind.