On State Highway 24/48 at East Fork Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 24/48.
(Side A)
A Liberty native, Jerry Clower (1926-1998) brought his colorful, observant, comic stories of southern life — developed as a sales tool as he worked as a fertilizer salesman — to live shows, recordings, television, bestselling . . . — — Map (db m92559) HM
On Jackson Street east of Lexington Street (State Route 17), on the right when traveling east.
Blending blues and old-time dance tunes,
fiddler William T. Narmour (1889-1961) and
guitarist Shellie W. Smith (1895-1968) became an
influential duo with forty-eight recordings for
Okeh and Bluebird records from 1928 to 1934 that
often . . . — — Map (db m170375) HM
On County Highway 419, 0.7 miles east of County Highway 80, on the left when traveling east.
(Side 1)
Formed in 1987 when three local musicians — Joe Lee Huffman, Willie Gene Huffman, and Robert Eaton — got together to play music and share supper, the Sparta Opry has become a community institution. Having offered more than 100 country, . . . — — Map (db m155271) HM
On East Main Street, 0.1 miles east of South Commerce Street, on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.
[Front]
Choctaw County fiddler Hoyt Ming (1902-1985) led the lively string band recorded as “Floyd Ming & His Pep Steppers” at a Memphis Victor session in 1928. His “Indian War Whoop,” with its fiddling “holler,” became an old-time country . . . — — Map (db m140731) HM
On 2nd Street at Washington Street, on the left when traveling north on 2nd Street.
Side 1
Born in Friar’s Point as Harold Lloyd Jenkins, son of a ferryboat captain, Conway Twitty (1933-1993) first achieved stardom as a bluesy rockabilly singer. Beginning in the 1970s, he became one of country’s bestselling balladeers ever, with . . . — — Map (db m170382) HM
On Malone Road, 0.4 miles south of Pleasant Hill Road, on the right when traveling south.
A native of Ferriday, Louisiana, Jerry Lee
Lewis started his musical career in nearby
Natchez, and in 1973 established the Lewis
Ranch here in Nesbit. Lewis' 1956 rock 'n' roll
classics "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On and
“Great Balls of Fire" . . . — — Map (db m170372) HM
On Main Street at Beach Boulevard (U.S. 90), on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
(front)
Born in Biloxi, Chris LeDoux (1948-2005), the Singing Bronc Rider, pursued dreams of success as both a competitive rodeo cowboy and latter day Western singing star and achieved both. The 1976 World Champion Bareback Bronc Rider . . . — — Map (db m79086) HM
On U.S. 49W at South Belzoni Street, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 49W.
Front
One of country music's most prolific and revered songwriters, Hank Cochran (1935-2010), was born in Isola and spent his early childhood years here. He wrote "Make the World Go Away," "A Little Bitty Tear," "She's Got You," and . . . — — Map (db m77169) HM
On Mississippi Route 178 at Stone Drive, on the left when traveling west on State Route 178.
Front
Born Virginia Wyette Pugh and raised on her grandparents' farm near Tremont, Tammy Wynette (1942-1998) might have remained an unknown local hairdresser, but with fierce determination and a voice and resilient life story that . . . — — Map (db m117206) HM
Near 22nd Avenue (Mississippi Route 493) at 4th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Front
Meridian's Jimmie Rodgers Day festivals of the 1950s, the first held May 26, 1953, became known as National Country Music Days, marking a turning point in the nation's enthusiasm for country music. Stars and fans from every . . . — — Map (db m77171) HM
On 5th Street at 20th Avenue, on the left when traveling north on 5th Street.
Front
Elsie Williamson McWilliams (1896-1985), the sister of Jimmie Rodgers's second wife Carrie, wrote or contributed to music and lyrics for thirty-nine of the songs that Rodgers performed or recorded, although she never received . . . — — Map (db m77170) HM
On Oak Grove Drive, 0.1 miles north of Azalea Drive (Old Mississippi Route 19), on the right when traveling north.
Front
Singing winningly, with storytelling clarity and physicality, of the real lives and fondest dreams of his down home audience, with varied musical backing that ranged from his own solitary guitar to rural pickers, horns, and . . . — — Map (db m77176) HM
On Front Street near 21st Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Born in Meridian and the grandson of the railway yard manager where Jimmie Rodgers
worked, Moe Bandy became one of country music’s most popular singers of the 1970s and ‘80s. A master of honky
tonk as well as cowboy songs that reflected . . . — — Map (db m60544) HM
On Elvis Presley Drive at Reese Street, on the right when traveling north on Elvis Presley Drive.
Front
Raised on country here in Tupelo, first introduced as “The Hillbilly Cat,” then by RCA Victor as “the hottest new name in country music,” Elvis Presley’s revolutionary musical mix always had country as a key ingredient. Appearing . . . — — Map (db m102752) HM
On Grand Boulevard (County Road 518) 0.1 miles north of Rosemary Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Front
Born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw County (1944) and spending her childhood here, Bobbie Gentry brought the accents, sounds and images of Delta life into scores of haunting songs she wrote and records she made, to become one . . . — — Map (db m77177) HM
Born in Smithville, Rod Brasfield was the Grand Ole Opry's top male comedian from 1947-1958, a beloved sad sack foil for Red Foley and Hank Williams and a comic sparring partner for Minnie Pearl and June Carter. He played dramatic and comic roles in . . . — — Map (db m173897) HM
On Industrial Road, 0.1 miles east of High School Circle, on the right when traveling east.
[Front]
Long-time Neshoba County resident Bob Ferguson (1927-2001) was a key shaper of the “Nashville Sound” of the 1960s and ‘70s, as the producer of hundreds of major recordings and writer of such classic country songs as “Wings of a . . . — — Map (db m140732) HM
On Recreation Road at Industrial Road, on the right when traveling north on Recreation Road.
Established here in 1949, the annual Choctaw
Indian Fair, formerly known as the Green Corn
Festival, showcases the cultural traditions of the
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians including
food, arts and crafts, stickball (kabotcha toli),
and . . . — — Map (db m234964) HM
On Byrd Avenue at Oak Street, on the right when traveling south on Byrd Avenue.
[Front]
A native of Philadelphia, Marty Gamblin began his long career in the music business through booking bands while still in high school. He later worked closely with Mississippi songwriter/performer Jim Weatherly, and ran Glen . . . — — Map (db m140736) HM
On Main Street (Mississippi Route 16) at Byrd Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
(side 1)
From his boyhood days performing here, Marty Stuart displayed singular zest for every flavor of country music. Beginning as a teenage mandolin player with Lester Flatt, he became an ebullient Grand Ole Opry star, "hillbilly . . . — — Map (db m130000) HM
Near Mississippi Route 21 at County Road 147, on the right when traveling north.
"Mississippi's Giant Houseparty," the
Neshoba County Fair was founded in 1889
as a stock and agricultural exhibition
and soon expanded to include horse racing,
carnival rides, political speeches and
musical entertainment. In the late . . . — — Map (db m234962) HM
On Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr E (Mississippi Route 182) at North Lafayette Street, on the right when traveling west on Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr E.
In the early morning hours of May 11, 1965, Johnny Cash was arrested for public drunkenness after he was found picking flowers on this site following a show at Mississippi State University the previous evening. Cash, who spent the night at the . . . — — Map (db m235196) HM
On Liberty Street (Mississippi Route 584) at 1st Road West, on the right when traveling east on Liberty Street.
Raised in Osyka, the versatile T. Tommy Cutrer succeeded as a country and gospel singer and instrumentalist and also as a businessman and politician, but his greatest fame came as a radio/television personality from the 1940s through the 1990s. As . . . — — Map (db m51625) HM
On East Oxford Street (Old Mississippi Route 9) at North Main Street, on the right when traveling east on East Oxford Street.
Pontotoc native Jim Weatherly is best known as
the author of "Midnight Train to Georgia,"a huge
hit for R&B group Gladys Knight
and the Pips, and he also had success as a
country songwriter and recording artist.
Charley Pride. Ray Price, Glen . . . — — Map (db m235192) HM
On Mississippi Route 3 at Joe Brown Avenue, on the right when traveling south on State Route 3.
The son of a Sledge sharecropper, Charley Frank Pride first won notice as a singer when music was just a sideline to his early baseball career. Taking a shot at what seemed an unlikely career in Nashville, he went on to record fifty-two Top Ten . . . — — Map (db m107544) HM
On West Main Street at Mangum Drive, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
(side 1)
From the time of her childhood here in Star, Faith Hill demonstrated a zest for music and performing that took her to Nashville while still a teenager, and to stardom from the release of her first record in 1993. She became a . . . — — Map (db m91738) HM
On Mississippi Route 13, 0.1 miles east of County Road 141, on the left when traveling north.
(front)
Founded in 1972 as the Taylorsville Bluegrass Jamboree when ray Jones and other area pickers looked for a place to play together for their growing audience, this grass roots event soon became a spur and focal point for bluegrass . . . — — Map (db m178938) HM
On Mississippi Route 21 north of West Street, on the right when traveling north.
The most renowned Mississippi string band of the 1920s, the four Revelers—fiddler Will Gilmer, mandolinist R. O. Mosley, banjoist Jim Wolverton and guitarist Dallas Jones—were based here in Sebastapol, and played live across the Southeast. They had . . . — — Map (db m191750) HM
On West Delta Avenue at Washington Street, on the left when traveling south on West Delta Avenue.
John Bright “Johnny” Russell (1940-2001) was born and raised in Moorhead and went on to become a star of the Grand Ole Opry and a popular country recording artist, with such hits as “Catfish John” and “Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon . . . — — Map (db m77168) HM
Front
Country music singer and composer O. B. McClinton, born and raised here in Senatobia, found his first musical success as a songwriter for 1960s Memphis soul labels. When Stax-Volt founded the Enterprise imprint for release of his . . . — — Map (db m102890) HM
On 2nd Street (Mississippi Route 25), on the left when traveling north.
(side 1)
Lyman Corbitt “Mac” McAnally, Jr., grew up in Belmont, where he sang and played piano at Belmont First Baptist Church before becoming a session musician and songwriter at the age of fifteen. McAnally wrote and recorded hit songs, . . . — — Map (db m41122) HM
On U.S. 72 at Gross Avenue, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 72.
Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Pete Pyle (1920-
1995), a native of Burnsville, played an important
role in the development of modern country music.
Pyle began his career playing over regional radio
stations and after making his first . . . — — Map (db m219979) HM
On Washington Avenue at North Poplar Street, on the left when traveling west on Washington Avenue.
Greenville native Steve Azar burst onto the national country scene in 2001 with his album Waitin’ on Joe, which featured the #2 hit "I Don’t Have to Be Me (‘Til Monday)"; it and the title track also topped the music video charts. Inspired . . . — — Map (db m170465) HM
On East Avenue South (Mississippi Route 12) at East Washington Street, on the right when traveling north on East Avenue South.
Front
A native of Hollandale who picked cotton as a child, a University of Southern Mississippi graduate and Navy pilot, Ben Peters (1933-2005) went on to become a Nashville songwriting legend, penning fourteen number-one hits, including . . . — — Map (db m121117) HM
On Mississippi Route 63 at Buckatunna-Chicora-Clara Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 63.
Jesse Otto Rodgers (1911-1973) born near Waynesboro, first cousin to Jimmie Rodgers, began singing on Mexican border radio stations after relocating to Texas. He wrote songs and recorded for Bluebird Records in the mid-1930s, . . . — — Map (db m80349) HM
On West Main Street (Mississippi Route 14) west of South Church Avenue (Mississippi Route 397), on the left when traveling west.
[Front]
Born in Louisville in 1953, Carl Jackson played banjo here as a boy, and by age fourteen was backing Jim & Jesse on the Grand Ole Opry. By the age of twenty he had established a versatile career as a recording vocalist, . . . — — Map (db m140735) HM
On Edgehill Avenue just west of 16th Avenue South, on the right when traveling west.
Nashville country music stardom attracted
many performers, songwriters and producers
from nearby Mississippi, from Jimmie Rodgers to Tammy Wynette, Charley Pride, Moe Bandy and Faith Hill. Mississippians Elvis Presley,
Conway Twitty, Bobbie . . . — — Map (db m160771) HM
On State Street at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on State Street.
Ralph Peer came to Bristol in search of large personalities who would make a strong
impression on Victor's new higher fidelity recordings, and discovered one of country
music's strongest in “Blue Yodeler” Jimmie Rodgers. Jimmie's . . . — — Map (db m157957) HM