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By Mark Hilton, October 18, 2015
W.C. Handy Encounters the Blues Marker (Rear)
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1 ► Mississippi, Tallahatchie County, Tutwiler — 95 — W.C. Handy Encounters the Blues — Mississippi Blues Trail —  |
| Front Bandleader W. C. Handy was waiting for a train here at the Tutwiler railway station circa 1903 when he heard a man playing slide guitar with a knife and singing “Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog.” Handy later published an . . . — — Map (db m90027) HM | |||
| 2 ► Mississippi, Sunflower County, Moorhead — 182 — "Where the Southern Cross the Dog" — Mississippi Blues Trail — |
| W. C. Handy, "The Father of the Blues," immortalized the crossing of the Southern Railway and the Yazoo Delta ("Yellow Dog") Railroad at Moorhead in his 1914 song "Yellow Dog Rag," better known under its later title, "Yellow Dog Blues." Handy wrote . . . — — Map (db m170520) HM | |||