Mississippi Blues Trail

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The Mississippi Blues Trail is a Mississippi Blues Commission project. She puts up signs. They tell the story of blues musicians or important locations of the Mississippi blues .

The blue trail begins on the Louisiana border and runs to Memphis , Tennessee . There are also boards outside of the state, for example in Chicago , where many blues musicians from Mississippi performed.

More important blues musicians came from the state, especially the Mississippi Delta , than from the rest of the southern states, for example Son House , Robert Johnson , Charlie Patton , Muddy Waters , Skip James , Bukka White , John Lee Hooker and BB King .

A group of blues researchers decides which artists are honored. The first plaque was set up in Holly Ridge in 2005 and honors Charlie Patton, the "Father of the Mississippi Delta Blues".

Surname place Remarks
Abbay & Leatherman Robinsonville Robert Johnson spent the 1920s on the plantation.
Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Aberdeen Bukka White lived in Aberdeen in the 1920s and 1930s
Ace Records Jackson The label was the most successful record label based in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s.
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Forest place of birth
BB King birthplace Berclair
Baptist Town Greenwood oldest Afro-American community, last residence of Robert Johnson
Beale Town Bound Hernando Birthplace or residence of several blues artists (Jim Jackson, Robert Wilkins, Dan Sane, Gus Cannon, George “Mojo” Buford, Earl Bell)
Big Joe Williams Crawford Big Joe Williams was born ten miles west of Crawford.
Big Walter Horton Horn Lake place of birth
Birthplace of the Blues? Dockery The Dockerey Plantation was one of the first centers of the blues in Mississippi.
Black Prairie Blues Macon
Blue Front Cafe Bentonia An important venue for local blues artists
Bo Diddley McComb
Bobby Rush Jackson Here he settled in the early 1980s.
Broadcasting the Blues Gulfport American Blues Network (ABN), a Gulfport resident, founded this blues station in 2000.
Bukka White Houston He was born on a farm five miles south of Houston.
Cassandra Wilson Jackson place of birth
Charles Evers Fayette He was one of the first Afro-American DJs
Charley Patton's grave Holly Ridge First board of the Mississippi Blues Trail.
Charlie Musselwhite Kosciusko place of birth
Sweet Home Chicago Chicago Many musicians from Mississippi worked here
Chrisman Street Cleveland Center of Afro-American life with shops, bars, etc. s. w.
Church Street Indianola Center of Afro-American life with shops, bars, etc. s. w.
Club Desire Canton One of Mississippi's first blues and rhythm and blues clubs (late 1940s to early 1960s)
Club Ebony Indianola One of the most important clubs in the south, bought by BB King after the club owner retired in 2008 to keep the tradition alive.
Columbus, Mississippi Blues Columbus Howlin 'Wolf , Bukka White, Big Joe Williams made the Black Prairies capital significant.
Denise LaSalle Belzoni Born in the county
Documenting the Blues Oxford Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi-publishes Living Blues , Blues Archive
Dorothy Moore / Alamo Theater Jackson Major African-American venue
Eddie Taylor Benoit place of birth
Elks Hart Lodge No. 640 Greenwood Major venue for rhythm and blues in the Delta
Elvis and the Blues Tupelo place of birth
Fred McDowell Como place of birth
Freedom Village Greenville Site of the first Mississippi Delta Blues Festival
Gold coast Jackson Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sam Myers, Cadillac George Harris, Sam Baker, Jr.,
Harold "Hardface" Clanton Tunica Entrepreneur
Harlem Inn Winstonville Important venue, especially for national acts on tour
Hattiesburg Hattiesburg Venue for major recording sessions for the Mississippi blues
Henry Townsend Shelby place of birth
Hickory Street Canton Center of African-American life
Highway 61 North Tunica "The Blues Highway"
Highway 61 South Vicksburg Road that brought many blues musicians north.
Highway 10 & 61 Leland Intersection where many musicians played for tips.
Hi-hat club Hattiesburg Venue
Hill Country Blues Holly Springs independent blues style in County Holly Springs
Honeyboy Edwards Shaw place of birth
Hopson Planting Co. Clarksdale The mechanization of agriculture released a lot of workers who often moved to the industrialized north; first plantation on which cotton was mechanically processed from sowing to harvest (1944)
Howlin 'wolf West Point Birthplace of White Station, north of West Point
Hubert Sumlin Greenwood
Ishmon Bracey Jackson one of the first blues musicians with recordings is buried here
Jack Owens Bentonia
James Cotton Tunica was born on the Bonnie Blue Plantation east of Tunica
Jimmie Rodgers meridian
Jimmy Reed Dunleith place of birth
Mississippi Joe Callicott Hernando spent most of his life here
Little Milton Inverness born on the George Bowles Plantation, two miles southwest of Inverness
Livin 'at Lula Lula This is where Charley Patton, Son House, Frank Frost and Sam Carr lived .
Magic Sam Grenada place of birth
Malaco Records Jackson Southern Soul, Blues, Gospel founded in 1967
Marcus Bottom Vicksburg important center of the early blues, Little Brother Montgomery
McCoy Brothers Raymond Composers (Corina, Corina)
Memphis Memphis Many Mississippi musicians went to Memphis (Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Jim Jackson, Memphis Minnie, Rufus Thomas, Junior Parker, BB King, Elvis Presley)
Memphis Minnie Walls tomb
Mississippi to Alabama Muscle Shoals There was a lively exchange of musicians between the states.
Mississippi John Hurt Avalon spent most of his life around Avalon
Mississippi to Helena Helena Helena was an important city for artists on both sides of the river
Mosley and Johnson New Albany Composers
MS River Blues Scott The dams broke 3 miles to the west in 1927
Muddy Waters Birthplace Rolling fork
Muddy Waters's Cabin Clarksdale Stovall Plantation lived in Waters until his trip to Chicago
Natchez Burning Natchez
Nelson Street Greenville
Otha Turner Como important representative of the Fife and Drum tradition in Mississippi
Otis Rush Philadelphia place of birth
Papa Lightfoot Natchez
Peavine branch Boyle Railway line
Pinetop Perkins Belzoni place of birth
Piney Woods Piney Woods The school produced a number of blues artists, including Sam Myers. The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi sang together here for the first time.
Po 'Monkey's Merigold One of the few surviving rural juke joints
Queen of Hearts Jackson significant venue
Rabbit Foot Minstrels Port Gibson In the early 20th century they toured to spread the blues in the south.
Red tops Vicksburg tape
Riverside Hotel Clarksdale
Robert Johnson Hazlehurst place of birth
Robert Johnson grave Greenwood
Robert Nighthawk Friars Point
Roma Wilson & Leon Pinson New Albany Gospel musician
Rosedale Rosedale inspired blues musicians z. B. Traveling Riverside Blues by Robert Johnson
Ruby Lacy Pelahatchie Musician
Sam Chatmon Hollandale Musician
Sam Cooke Clarksdale place of birth
Shake rag Tupelo African-American community
Skip James Bentonia Musician
Son House Tunica Musician
Son Thomas Leland Residence from 1961 to 1993
Sonny Boy Williamson II. Glendora place of birth
Subway lounge Jackson Event location in the Summer Hotel
Summit Street McComb Center of African-American life
Tommy Johnson Crystal Springs grew up here
Trumpet Records Jackson
Toilet cell phone Tutwiler here he heard a guitarist who encouraged him to play Yellow Dog Blues
WGRM Radio Studio Greenwood It was here that BB King made his first live radio broadcast.
Willie Dixon Vicksburg place of birth
Woodville Blues Woodville

photos

  • Map of the state of Mississippi

  • Beale Town Bound Blues Trail Marker, Hernando, Mississippi

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel: Mississippi has the blues
  2. ^ Mississippi Bluestrail homepage

Web links

Commons : Mississippi Blues Trail  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files