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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: April 7, 2010
Caption:
The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Alabama Marker | Additional Description: 1.These releases by the Staples Singers, Little Milton, Big Joe Williams, George Jackson, Mosley & Johnson, Fenton Robinson, and James Govan all included tracks recorded in Muscle Shoals or Sheffield.
2. Bluesman and social activist Willie King 1943-2009) was born in Prairie Point Mississippi, where he also recorded his Freedom Creek CD at a local juke joint. King lived most of his life just over the border in Pickens County, Alabama.
Submitted: December 18, 2011, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p185260
File Size: 0.279 Megabytes
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