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Caption: Marker detail: Other Kosciusko and Attala County natives who have been active in the blues
Additional Description: Other Kosciusko and Attala County natives who have been active in the blues include noted saxophonist J. T. Brown (c. 1908-1969) and guitarist L. C. Roby (born in 1944), who both moved to Chicago; guitarist K. C. “Coot” Harmon (b. 1939), who made Cleveland, Ohio, his new home base; singer Taft Jr. Hawthorne (b. 1944), known as “The Sam Cooke of the South''; fiddle and mandolin player Ezell Lowery (1910-2001) and his brother; bassist Tony Lowery (1905-1989), of the Lowery Brothers Band.

Multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Smith (b. 1938) and singer, guitarist, and storyteller James Douglas “J. D.” Suggs (1886-1955) both moved to Michigan, and some research indicates that prewar bluesman Papa Harvey Hull, who made records in Chicago in 1927, was born in Zilpha, c. 1889, and died in 1962.
Submitted: February 18, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p464566
File Size: 0.530 Megabytes

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