Historical Marker Series

Mississippi: Mississippi Country Music Trail

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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. Appearin…
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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 country records, M…
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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 three of the most …
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Marty Gamblin. . [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 Campb…
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Carl Jackson. . [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, instrument…
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Bob Ferguson. . [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 &quo…
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Hoyt Ming. . [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,"…
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Leake County Revelers. . [Front] . 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 pla…
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