Back in its boisterous heyday in the early 1900s, Helena served as a port for the cotton trade and a haven for Delta blues musicians — a “music, liquor, and gambling era,” as local historian Kyle Miller put it. The town still broadcasts one of the nation’s longest-running radio shows, King Biscuit Time, which has been spotlighting blues music since 1941. But the town of about 9,500 on the Mississippi River — which merged with neighboring West Helena in 2006 to form the awkwardly named Helena-West Helena — has seen steady population dropoff since 1960.
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