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Mississippi Blues Trail Historical Markers
The Mississippi Blues Trail was created by the Mississippi Blues Commission in 2006 to place interpretive markers at the most notable historical sites related to the birth, growth and influence of the blues throughout (and in some cases beyond) the state of Mississippi.
There are over 210 Mississippi Blues Trail markers already placed.
Jack Owens became one of Mississippi's most venerated blues artists in the 1980s and ‘90s after spending most of his life as a farmer in Yazoo County. Born November 17, 1904, or 1906 according to some sources, Owens did not perform outside the . . . — — Map (db m77275) HM
The haunting quality of Nehemiah “Skip” James’s music earned him a reputation as one of the great early Mississippi bluesmen. James (1902-1969) grew up at the Woodbine Plantation and as a youth learned to play both guitar and piano. At his 1931 . . . — — Map (db m77272) HM
The Blue Front Café opened in 1948 under the ownership of Carey and Mary Holmes, an African American couple from Bentonia. In its heyday the Blue Front was famed for its buffalo fish, blues, and moonshine whiskey. One of the couple’s sons, . . . — — Map (db m77274) HM
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore was one of America’s most popular blues singers in the 1940s before becoming a renowned religious leader, radio announcer, and gospel singer. He served as pastor of several churches in Mississippi and Louisiana, . . . — — Map (db m77260) HM
Tommy McClennan (c. 1905-1961) was one of America's most successful down-home blues recording artists during the period when he recorded 20 singles for the Bluebird label (1939-1942). Among McClennan's most notable numbers were "Bottle It Up and . . . — — Map (db m77258) HM
Mississippi Delta blues icon Eddie James "Son"
House became one of the most heralded figures
în the blues revival of the 1960s, when he and
his wife Evie lived in an apartment building
here on Greig Street. House moved from
Mississippi to . . . — — Map (db m170963) HM
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The Blues Foundation, the world’s premier organization dedicated to honoring, preserving, and promoting the blues, was founded in Memphis in 1980. Mississippi-born performers and business professionals in the Foundation’s Blues Hall . . . — — Map (db m63288) HM
The bright lights of Beale Street and the promise of musical stardom have lured blues musicians from nearby Mississippi since the early 1900s. Early Memphis blues luminaries who migrated from Mississippi include Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Jim Jackson . . . — — Map (db m82863) HM
The Overton Park Shell was built in 1936 by the Federal Works Progress Administration and the city of Memphis, and initially featured symphony concerts, theater, chamber music and light opera. Elvis Presley played his first professional Memphis . . . — — Map (db m254624) HM
Port Washington played a historic role in the production and distribution of some of America's greatest blues and gospel music in the 1920s and '30s. The talent roster of Paramount Records, founded here in 1917, featured many iconic blues . . . — — Map (db m279509) HM
Blues hit a peak in the music of U.K. in the 1960s when rock bands covered countless blues songs, especially by artists born in rural Mississippi. Some, like Robert Johnson and Elmore James, were known only through their records, but Muddy Waters . . . — — Map (db m313577) HM
Rock music in Britain was in large part inspired in the 1960s by the recordings and tours of American blues artists, including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson and others who were born in the state of Mississippi. In turn, . . . — — Map (db m313576) HM
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