Music Heritage
Biloxi
• A Mississippi Blues Trail marker on Main Street salutes the African- American clubs that flourished there during and after World War II. Casinos and the Gulf Coast Blues and Heritage Festival lead today's music scene.
Clarksdale
• Visit the Delta Blues Museum, which traces this unique musical style and houses memorabilia of such music greats as Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and B.B. King.
• In the evening, enjoy dinner at Madidi restaurant followed by an exciting night at Ground Zero Blues Club, both co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman.
• Tour the grounds of historic Hopson Plantation.
Cleveland
• Visit the Delta State University Archives, which include occasional Smithsonian
exhibits, historical displays and changing exhibits on the Delta.
• Take the Historic Blues Driving Tour, a self-guided tour of sites important to blues music.
• Dockery Plantation accounts for the region’s importance in the blues culture. It was base for a group of musicians, including the blues pioneer Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf.
Greenville
• Nelson Street juke joints – clubs and restaurants with blues heritage and live music – are clustered near each other.
• Blues bars along Walnut Street feature such blues artists as local favorite John Horton, plus hip-hop and live rock bands every weekend, along with drinks and fabulous dining. There’s a monthly block party when weather permits.
• Eugene Powell first recorded on the Bluebird label in 1936 under the name “Sonny Boy Nelson.” He was a good friend of fellow bluesman Sam Chatmon. He died November 4, 1998, and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in nearby Metcalfe.
For more information on Mississippi’s Music
Heritage, scan the bar code with your
smartphone or visit VisitMississippi.org/
music.aspx
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Music rings out all across the state, in juke joints that throb with the blues
and at other sites that trace the influence of that powerful style on
everything from rock and roll to jazz, country, gospel and bluegrass.
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