Place Category: Blues & Country Music Trail

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence ...

The Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum on Highway 61 is the first place many people see when ...

Memphis Minnie, born Lizzie “Kid” Douglas in 1897, is considered by many to be the best female blues singer of ...

Jerry Lee Lewis is widely known as a pioneer of rock ’n’ roll, but country music was always at the ...

Big Walter Horton, also known as Walter “Shakey” Horton was born in Horn Lake on April 6, 1918, moved to ...

Born in October 1899, Joe Callicott was a Nesbit native who spent his whole life in the area south of ...

This Blues Marker honors Hernando musicians Gus Cannon, Jim Jackson and Robert Wilkins who helped establish the mid south area ...

James Luther “Jim” Dickinson (1941-2009) played a central role in the Memphis area blues scene for many decades though his ...

Ace Records, founded in 1955 by Johnny Vincent (1925-2000), was the most successful Mississippi-based label of the 1950s and 1960s. ...

The Alamo Theatre is a landmarked, historic theater presents a variety of film screenings & live productions. The Alamo Theatre ...