Some of the monuments and Markers from The Blues Trail in Mississippi (Plus a few) – Pt 1

My daughter got a job in Louisiana. When we went to stay we were able to hire a car and spent a fabulous week touring around Mississippi looking up the graves, venues and markers of all the fabulous Blues guys.

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The Mississippi Blues Trail – Tutwiler

Sitting on the station where way back at the turn of the nineteenth century W C Handy wrote of his first encounter with an itinerate Blues singer. This is where the story began.

The Blues Trail in Mississippi – Hazlehurst – Hickory Street where Elmore James had his electric store.

The bottom photo is where Elmore James’ store stood. That’s where he fiddled with his guitars to get that uncopyable sound.

The Blues Trail – Hitting Memphis

Memphis felt like the middle of something! Pretty wild!!