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Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King (AP)

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_en_mu/king_s_museum"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081002/capt.7de323e0414d45bb978a44a89d96b81b.king_s_museum_msmg206.jpg?x=81&y=130&q=85&sig=IarHyQsRN4hOqRh51yJLFA--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="Some of B.B. King's artifacts are seen at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 in Indianola, Miss. More than a half-century after King left Indianola in search of fame, the $15 million B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretative Center has opened in his hometown and is as much a tribute to him and his blues music as the culture that inspired it. (AP Photo/Matthew S. Gunby)" border="0" /></a>AP - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.</p><br clear="all"/>