| Site name | Descriptive Phrase | Comments | Reference (title and page) | Street address | City | County |
| 308 Blues Club | juke joint and restaurant | Live Blues entertainment from the Mississippi Delta every Friday and Saturday. Hear the finest in local and national Blues music in our newly renovated facility. | Mississippi Tourism web site | 308 Depot Ave. | Indianola, MS | Sunflower |
| 930 Blues Café | juke joint/restaurant | Live blues at lunch and supper almost every day. Great food. | http://www.jesdablues.com/about_us.htm | 930 Congress St. | Jackson | Hinds |
| Abbay and Leatherman Plantation | Plantations | Where Robert Johnson spent most of his childhood. He learned the jew's harp, harmonica, and guitar here, learning from Willie Brown and Son House. This is also the site of a large Indian mound, from the top of which Hernando de Soto first saw the Mississippi River. | Blues Traveling, p. 52. Also the Tunica Museum guide | Highway 304 4 miles west of U.S. 61 | Robinsonville | Tunica |
| Ace Records | recording studio | two buildings north of the Speir studio | Blues Traveling, p. 161 | 241 Farish St. | Jackson | Hinds |
| Aikei Pro's Record Shop | music store | Interesting mix of music and second hand itmes. Lots of old records, and a serious empahsis on north Mississippi blues | Blues Traveling p 200 | 125 N. Center St. | Holly Springs | Marshall |
| Airport Grocery | Indoor venues/clubs | Live music is occasionally staged here. Willie Foster recorded a live album here. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Highway 8 | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| Alamo Theater | Historic Building | Built in 1950's, restored in 1996, famous for performances by Otis Spann, Dortohy Moore, jazz acts, vaudeville, etc. | Blues Traveling, p. 163 | 333 N. Farish St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Anthony's | restaurant | "faux-jook-joint" with live blues on first Saturday of each month | Blues Traveling p 188 | 116 Main St. | West Point | Clay |
| Armenter Chatmon grave | Cemetary/headstones | Blues Musician. Better known as "Bo Carter," he was a multi-talented blues instrumentalist and singer. The half-brother of blues singer Charley Patton and brother of blues singer Sam Chatmon, Bo Carter carved his niche in blues history as a member of the group known as the "Mississippi Sheiks." He began playing music before the year 1920 in rural Mississippi, and by the late 1920s, he was recording for the Brunswick Record label in New Orleans, Louisiana. | http://www.findagrave.com/ | Nittayuma Cemetary | Sharkey | Tallahatchie |
| Art Gallery, F. D. Hall Music Center, Jackson State | museum | contemporary and traditional art displays, including occasional blues exhibits | MS Tourism files | 1400 J. R. Lynch St. | jackson | Hinds |
| B. B. King Homecoming | Special events/festivals | Held the first Friday in June --or May 31 if June 1 is a Saturday--since 1968 in memory of murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers. | Blues Traveling, pp. 144-145. | Fletcher Park on Roosevelt Street | Indianola | Sunflower |
| B. B. King's Footprints, Handprints, and Signature | Historic markers | Dated June 5, 1986. B.B. King used to play on this corner. | Blues Traveling, p. 144 also Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | Church Street just south of Second | Indianola | Sunflower |
| B.B. King birthplace | Birthplace | B.B. King's footprints, handprints, and autograph are in town's sidewalk at corner of 2nd and Church Streets | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 247 | Indianola | Sunflower | |
| B.B. King Homecoming | event | The "thrill" is coming home. Blues legend B.B. King returns to his hometown each year to entertain at this major music performance event. | Mississippi Division of Tourism | Fletcher Park | Indianola | Sunflower |
| Baptist Town | Historic neighborhoods | Black neighborhood where Robert Johnson lived for a few months before he died. He may have died in a house, no longer there, at Pelican and Young streets. | Blues Traveling, p. 114. | Greenwood | Leflore | |
| Bell Grove Baptist Church | Religious buildings and sites | Reverend Willie Morganfield, a cousin of Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is pastor. Visitors are welcome. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 12. | 831 Garfield | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Belzoni | Historic towns | Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup lived here. Denise LaSalle and Paul Wine Jones are Belzoni natives. | Blues Traveling, pp. 145-146. | Belzoni | Humphreys | |
| Belzoni jail house | historic building | Charley Patton sang about this site in "High Sherrif Blues". | Blues Traveling, p. 144 | Hayden Street, just past courthouse | Belzoni | Humphreys |
| Big Apple Inn | Historic building | Sonny Boy Williamsonn II lived upstairs. Willie Love and Elmore James stayed here. The same apartment became the NAACP state headquarters and Medgar Evers worked here before he was murdered. | Blues Traveling, p. 164 | 509 N. Farish St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Big Joe Wiliams grave | grave/headstones | Played with Robert Nighthawk and Sonnyboy Williamson I | Blues Traveling p. 185[1] | Crawford | Lowndes | |
| Birdland | Historic building | formerly The Crystal Palace, site of touring jazz and blues acts | Blues Traveling, p. 165 | 538 Farish St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Biscuit Company Café | restaurant | live blues Wednesday nights, 1850 building that was originally a biscuit company | Blues Traveling, p. 151 | 1100 Washington Street | Vicksburg | Warren |
| Biscuits and Blues | restaurant | occassional live blues | Blues Traveling p. 178[2] | 315 Main St. | Natchez | Adams |
| Black Castle | Indoor venues/clubs | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Front Street | Ruleville | Sunflower | |
| Blue Front | Historic district | The black entertainment district in Hollandale. A few jukes but rarely live music. | Blues Traveling, p. 147. | South Simmons Street | Hollandale | Washington |
| Blue Front Café | juke joint | Live blues on Sunday afternoons, traditional Bentonia blues | Blues Traveling p. 171 | 108 E. Railroad Avenue | Bentonia | Yazoo |
| Blue Lake | Historic towns | B.B. King was born in a house that no longer stands on the bank of Blue Lake. | Blues Traveling, pp. 119-120. | Near Berclair | Leflore | |
| Blue Light (formerly Boar's Nest) | Juke joints | Occasional live music. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Wilson Ave. | Drew | Sunflower |
| Blues and Legends Hall of Fame | Museums | Open 9am to midnight, 7 days a week. | Blues Traveling, p. 54. | In the Horseshoe Casino, Highway 304 | Robinsonville | Tunica |
| Bluesville | Indoor venues/club | A thousand-seat nightclub with bluesy décor. | Blues Traveling, pp. 53-54. | In the Horseshoe Casino, Highway 304 | Robinsonville | Tunica |
| Bogue Memorial Cemetery; James "Son" Thomas' gravesite | Grave/ Headstone | difficult to find | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 249 | outside of Leland | Washington | |
| Bolivar County Courthouse | Government building | W.C. Handy first realized The Blues would make money at this site. A Historical Marker commemorates his epiphany. | Touring Literary Mississippi, Patti Car Black and Marion Barnwell, 57 | Court Street | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| Booker T Washington "Bukka" White | home town | Born in Houston, grew up in the Delta, and lived in Abderdeen for awhile | Blues Traveling p 189 | Houston | Chikasaw | |
| Boss Hall's | Indoor venues/club | Occasional live music. "Boss" died recently, but his son carries on. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. | 506 Front Street | Leland | Washington |
| Bug's Place | juke joint | Historic jook, Robert Johnson supposedly played in the back of the older brick portion of the building. Live music occasionally now. Owned by Jesse Brown ("June Bug"). | Bolivar county Chamber of Commerce | along old railroad tracks | Rosedale | Bolivar |
| C.W.'s AKA Blue Diamond Lounge AKA Margaret's | Juke joints | The place where Juke Joint Saturday Night--with performances by Big Jack Johnson "The Oil Man" with Frank Frost and Sam Carr, and Arthneice "Gas Man" Jones and the Stone Gas Band with Terry Williams and Howard Stovall--was filmed in 1991 | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 11 | 381 W. Tallahatchie Ave | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Carnegie Public Library | Museum | In 1541 DeSoto's men encountered the Quizquiz Indians, whose village encompassed all of what is now Clarksdale. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 234 | 114 Delta Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Casey Jones Museum | museum | train museum with blues associations | Blues Traveling p. 169 | 10901 Vaugh Road | Vaughn | Yazoo |
| Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art | Music stores | Opened n August 2002 by St. Louis transplants Roger and Jennifer Stolle, this store sells local and hard-to-find blues recordings, books, and outsider art. It also serves as an information center for Clarksdale blues. | 252 Delta Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Charley Patton's grave | Graves/Headstones | The cemetery is next to the Holly Ridge Gin and near the New Jerusalem M.B. Church, which employed Patton to sing religious songs in the 1930s. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. and NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 247 | Holly Ridge Road | Holly Ridge | Sunflower |
| Chewalla Rib Shack | historic building | This now closed kitchen was Junior Kimbrough's original jook joint. It began life as a log cabin in the 1820's in Byhalia. The logs were salvaged and moved to Holly Springs in the 1980's, and became a jook joint in 1990. | Blues Traveling p 204 | Holly Springs | Marshall | |
| Chrisman Avenue | juke joints, historic homes | Several buildings along this street were sites of performances by blues musicians in the distant past. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Chrisman Avenue | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| Clarksdale Station | National Register | Built in 1926. Muddy Waters left from this train station in 1943, as did many others during the Great Migration from the South. | Blues Traveling, pp. 71-72 | 1 Blues Alley | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Club 21 | Indoor venues/clubs | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Front Street | Ruleville | Sunflower | |
| Club 93 | juke joint | A big night club that regularly has soul blues | Blues Traveling p 202 | Highway 7 North | Holly Springs | Marshall |
| Club Ebony | Indoor venues/club | B. B. King, Little Milton, Bobby Rush, Willie Clayton, Marvin Sease, Denise LaSalle, and others perform here. The band Ladies Choice performs here regularly, often with Bill Abel. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. | 404 Hanna | Indianola | Sunflower |
| Commerce, MS | Plantation | Robert Johnson lived here among other workers at the Abbay and Leatherman Plantation. Sam Charters visited here in the 1970s on Johnson's trail | Blues Traveling, p. 53 | highway 304 and the levee | Tunica | Tunica |
| Cottrell Street | historic highway | historic Black business district. Bill's is a little club where Howlin' Wolf played (318 Cottrell St). | Blues Traveling p 188 | Cottrell Street | West Point | Clay |
| Crossroads monument | historic marker | Local artist Vic Barbieri sculpted two guitars to place at the intersection that Clarksdalians recognize as the crossroads where the myth of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil occurred. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 14; Blues Traveling pp. 68-71. | Intersection of Highways 49 and 61 | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Crossroads movie site | Outdoor areas of historic note | The crossroads scene of the 1980s film "Crossroads" was filmed at this site. The tree in the movie is no longer there. | Watson Road off Highway 1 near Beulah | Beulah | Bolivar | |
| Crystal Springs | grave/headstones | Tommy Johnson was born and grew up here. He is buried on private land here too. | Blues Traveling p. 174 | Crystal Springs | Copia | |
| David "Honey Boy" Edward's birthplace | birthplace | Edwards was born in Shaw in 1915 | http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/EdwardsHoneyboy.html#Biography%20of%20David%20Honeyboy%20Edwards | Bolivar | ||
| Deep Delta Festival | event | Celebrate our heritage "Deep in the Heart of the Mississippi Delta" with annual Deep Delta Festival live music all day, childrens activities. See Muddy Waters Memorial. | Mississippi Division of Tourism | P.O. Box 310 | Rolling Fork | Sharkey |
| Dela's Stackhouse | Music stores | Opened by Jim O'Neal and Patty Johnson in 1988, this building housed the recording studio for Rooster Blues, built by local musicians. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 13 | 232 Sunflower Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Delta Blues and Heritage Festival | Special events/Festivals | One of the biggest and oldest blues festivals in the country. Held every year the third Saturday of September since 1978. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6, Blues Traveling, p. 136. | Highway 1 at Route 454 | Greenville | Washington |
| Delta Blues Inspired by W.C. Handy | Historic Marker | This is reportedly the spot where W. C. Handy was "born" as a blues man. | http://www.ssrc.msstate.edu/grr/index2.htm | Courthouse Square | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| Delta Blues Museum | Museums | Built in 1918, this was Clarksdale's freight train depot. The museum moved here in 1999. Extensive collection of videos, magazines, books and sound recordings available to visitors. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 234, and Blues Traveling, pp. 72-73 | 1 Blues Alley | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Delta Blues Week | event | This week long celebration includes the Blues Family Picnic, art exhibition, blues on the block, jazz tribute to the blues and Little Wynn Festival leading up to the Blues Festival | Mississippi Division of Tourism | 410 Washington Ave. | Greenville | Washington |
| Delta Gallery Blues Museum | Music stores | Not a museum. A store that sells food, souvenirs, and blues-related merchandise. | Blues Traveling, p. 115. | 933 Highway 49W | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Dipsie Doodle Lounge | juke joint | famous jook in the New World district of Clarksdale, described by Alan Lomax. | Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began, p 37-40 | Martin Luther King and the old railroad tracks | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Django's Guitar and Music | music store | music store selling Dick Waterman's blues photos. | Blues Traveling p 198 | 304 S. Lamar Blvd | Oxford | Lafayette |
| Do Drop Inn | Juke Joint | Open Thurs-Sun, Bring Your Own Bottle establishment. Music most likely on Sunday night. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 231 | Shelby | Bolivar | |
| Dockery Farms | plantation | Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett), whose aunt lived at Dockery, learned to play from other bluesmen at Dockery; "Pops" Staples grew up near the plantation in Upper Dockery. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 247 | between Cleveland and Ruleville | Sunflower | |
| Dockery Farms | Plantations; Historic Markers | Founded in 1895 by Will Dockery and still in operation, this was once one of the largest plantations in the Delta. Charley Patton learned from an older musician, Henry Sloan, and passed on what he knew to Willie Brown and Howlin' Wolf who also lived at Dockery. Pops Staples grew up in Upper Dockery. | Delta Blues Map Kit, pp. 4-5, and Mississippi The Magnolia State, Sammy Lou R. and Gerald E. Johnston | Highway 8 between Ruleville and Cleveland | Dockery | Sunflower |
| Dockery Farms | Birth Place of the Blues | Some music historians (eg, BB King) say the blues was born here. Charlie Patton worked here with his teacher Henry Sloan who had been playing since 1897. Pops Staples worked here as well. | Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | East of Cleveland on 49. Between Cleveland and Ruleville | Bolivar | |
| Drew | Historic town | Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and others worked on plantations near Drew before 1920. They got together in town to play and share musical ideas. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Highway 49W | Drew | Sunflower |
| Edward Lee Hotel | Historic building | used by touring Black musicians while they performed at the Alamo or Crystal Palace | Blues Traveling, p. 165 | 144 Church St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Elmore James grave | grave/headstones | Newport M. B. Church. Take highway 14 from 55 west for 1.3 miles to the T intersection. This is where Elmore James was born. Go north on 17 at the T for 2.6 miles to Newport Road. Turn left on Newport and go 3.9 miles to the church. | Blues Traveling p. 170 | Ebenezer | Holmes | |
| Entertainment Club | Birth places | Blues guitarist Johnnie Billington teaches and performs with his students here. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 3; Blues Traveling, p. 87 | Darby Ave. | Lambert | Quitman |
| Eugene Powell's grave | Graves/Headstones | Eugene Powell first recorded on the Bluebird label in 1936 under the name "Sonny Boy Nelson." He was a good friend of Sam Chatmon. He died November 4, 1998, and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Metcalfe. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 5; Blues Traveling p. 137-138. | Metcalfe | Washington | |
| Evansville | historic building | The Evansville Commissary, built by Civil War doctor Richard Owen in the 1880s is still used by his great grandson Sterling Owen as the plantation office of the Owen Farms and an occasional weekend get-together jam session place by area musicians. Evansville also has many indian mounds, including one at the end of Main Street, and another under the one room school house just west of town. | Tunica Museum guide | Evansville | Tunica | |
| F.S. Wolcott Rabbit Foot Minstrel Show Headquarters | historic building | former headquaters of one of the top two minstrel shows in the US | Blues Traveling p. 176 | Carroll St and Market St | Port Gibson | Claiborne |
| Farish Street | historic district | Historic center of African American culture in Jackson | Blues Traveling, p. 159 | jackson | Hinds | |
| Fat Possum Records | record company | "hostile to the public and the press" sometimes "nice to visitors" | Blues Traveling p 198 | 603 S. 16th St. | Oxford | Lafayette |
| Field's Café | juke joint | a restaurant with live blues on Monday night | Blues Traveling, p. 161 | 100 W. Griffith St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Fred McDowell's grave | grave/headstones | take exit 257 off I 55. Go west on highway 310 through Como to Hammond Hill road. Turn north for 3 miles to Tate-Panola Road. Hammond Hill M. B. Church has a cemetary on the northwest corner. Middle of the row, towards the back of the cemetary. | Blues Traveling p 206 | Como | Panola | |
| G.G. Lounge | Juke joints | Fish frys most Sundays, sometimes with T-Model Ford providing music. Scenes from the film Juke were filmed here. | http://www.deltablues.net/gg.html | County Road 159 | Winterville | Washington |
| George St. Grocery | restaurant | occassional blues | Blues Traveling, p. 167 | 416 George St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Glendora | Historic town | Sonny Boy Willisamson II (Alec Rice Miller) was born here between 1897 and 1911. J.W. Mylan, one of the murders of Emmett Till, lived in Glendora, and his home is currently falling in. | Blues Traveling, p. 110, and personal experience (Luther Brown) | Off 49E, 7 miles north of highway 8 | Glendora | sunflower |
| Greasy Street | juke joints | a nickname for Front Street, running along the railroad tracks. A strip of jook joints, including the Black Castle and the Top 10 Club. Still very popular on weekends, but no live music now. | Blues Traveling, p. 110, and personal experience (Luther Brown) | Front Street, Ruleville | Ruleville | Sunflower |
| Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum and Gallery | Museums | The museum holds the largest collection of Robert Johnson audio and video recordings and memorabilia, and the largest collection of photos created and compiled by the South's finest black photographic firm, Hooks Bros. (1886-1983) | Website | 214 Howard Street | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Ground Zero Blues Club | Indoor venues/clubs | Owned by actor Morgan Freeman and attorney Bill Luckett and opened in May 2001. | 0 Blues Alley | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Gus Cannon grave | Cemetary/headstones | Folk Musician. Jug-band pioneer. In 1963 the "Rooftop Singers" had a worldwide hit with a cover of his version of "Walk Right In" which he had recorded on October 1, 1929 as "Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers". He was born anywhere between 1874 and 1885 (His tombstone has the year 1874, his biography in the "All Music Guide" has the date September 12, 1885). | http://www.findagrave.com/ | Greenville Memorial Cemetary | Hernando | Desoto |
| Gus Cannon's grave | grave/headstones | From I 55, take exit 284. Go West on Pleasant Hill Road to hgihwy 51 and turn right. One mile up the road is a large cemetary between two churches and across the road from the Place Pub. Cannon is half way back and a quarter of the way from the right. | Blues Traveling p 212 | Desoto | ||
| Hal and Mal's | restaurant | occassional live blues, interesting décor | Blues Traveling, p. 167 | 200 S. Commerce St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Harlem Inn site | Historic Building Site | Site of the Harlem Inn, the "Showplace of the South," once the Delta's major blues nightclub. Operated by the Patton family since 1939, burned in 1989 | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 3 | Winstonville | Bolivar | |
| Henry "Son" Sims grave | Graves/Headstones | "Son" Simms played with Muddy Waters before Waters left Clarksdale. Simms can be heard on Waters' recordings made by Alan Lomax at Waters' house on Stovall Plantation. | 831 Garfield | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Hickory Street Area | historic district | Many significant African American owned business. Elmore James played in clubs here in the 1940's and 50's | MS Tourism files | Hickory St. | Canton | Madison |
| highway 61 | historic road | the blues highway/freedom road | ||||
| Highway 61 Blues Festival | Special events/festivals | Began June 2000 and has featured local acts like Willie Foster, T-Model Ford, Eddie Cubic, John Horton, Cadillac John and Bill Abel, Paul Wine Jones, Mississippi Slim, and others, and touring acts like Little Milton, Bobby Rush, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Willie King. | Blues Traveling, p. 139. Website. | Downtown Leland | Leland | Washington |
| Highway 61 Blues Museum | Museums | Opened by Billy Johnson in summer 2001 with exhibits on Leland area musicians. | Blues Traveling, p. 139. | Fourth and Broad | Leland | Washington |
| Hirsberg's Drugstore | Business building | Robert Johnson played in front of this store in 1930s. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 2 | Friars Point | Coahoma | |
| Holly Ridge Store | juke joint | Charley Patton lived in the back of the store in the 1930's shortly before his death. He played here with Willie foster, and guitarist Asie Payton. | Life in the Delta, July 2003, article by Billy Johnson, pp 21-22 | Holmes Road | Holly Ridge | Sunflower |
| Hopson Plantation | Plantations | Founded in 1834 by Joseph J. Hopson, by 1852 this plantation encompassed 4,000 acres. During the Civil War, Joseph's son Howell Hopson was an officer in the 11th Mississippi Regiment and also fought with Nathan Bedford Forrests 6th Brigade. In 1921, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad built a spur out to the Hopson Plantation gin, and in 1927 an early International Harvester cotton picker was tested at Hopson. | Blues Traveling, 83; Cobb, 204; Holley 102; Weeks 34 | 8141 Old Highway 49 | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Howlin' Wolf home town | historic town | Wolf's house is gone, but was in a wooded lot next to the store and barbecue pit | Blues Traveling p 188 | 325 Commerce | Whites (or White Station) | Clay |
| Howlin' Wolf Memorial Blues Fest | event | Held in West Point annually at the Civic Center | Blues Traveling p 188 | West Point | Clay | |
| Howlin' Wolf Statue | monument | inteeresting black granite statue that is built like a cutout | Blues Traveling p. 187[3] | West Point | Clay | |
| Ida B. Wells festival | event | Festival that features artwork in various media by MS artists, family gathering of Ida B. Wells descendents. Blues, Gospel, Jazz concerts, barbecue on the lawn and a banquet honoring the birthday of Ida B. Wells. | MS Tourism files | 220 N. Randolph St | Holly Springs | Marion |
| Ike Turner's house | Historic homes | Izear Luster Turner, Jr., was born in this house in 1932. He and members of his family lived here into the 1950s. No visitor services available | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 13, and NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 234 | 304 Washington St. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Ishman Bracey grave | Cemetary/headstones | Blues Musician. He was an early figure of the Mississippi Blues Delta movement. He learned how to play the guitar at a young age and by 1910, he was playing in local dance halls, juke joints, fish fries and other events in rural Mississippi. In February 1928 h went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he recorded with Charlie McCoy on the Victor Record Label. In August 1928, he returned to Memphis once again to record some more material for Victor. He worked with such talents as The New Orleans Nehi Boys, Kid Ernest Michall, and Charles Taylor. | http://www.findagrave.com/ | Willow Park Cemetary | Jackson | Hinds |
| Jack Owens' Grave | grave/headstones | Cannon Road to Scotland Road, past the Old Liberty M. B. Church up a dirt drive into the woods 3.0 miles from Scotland Road. | Blues Traveling p. 172 | |||
| Jacqueline's | Indoor venues/clubs | Owned by the family of 11-year old blues guitar prodigy, Jacqueline Gooch | Martin Luther King | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| James "Son" Thomas's grave | Graves/Headstones | In Bogue Memorial Cemetery, in front of Greater St. Matthew M.B. Church | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. | Old Tribbett Road | Leland | Washington |
| Jeffries | historic plantation | Charlie Patton spent some time working on this plantation, and performed in local jooks. | Tunica Museum guide | Jeffries | Coahoma | |
| Jimmie Rodger's grave | grave/headstones | Take Azalea Drive to Oak Grove Drive and turn left. Cemetary is on the right past Oak Grove Baptist Church. Rodgers' grave is on the left, two rows in | Blues Traveling p. 183[4] | Oak Grove Cemetary | Meridian | Lauderdale |
| Jimmie Rodgers Museum | museum | a collection of rodgers memorabilia | Blues Traveling p. 182[5] | 1725 Jimmie Rodgers Drive | Meridian | Lauderdale |
| Joe Callicot's Grave | grave/headstones | Take exit 284 from I 55. go East on Pleasan Hill Road to Getwell Road and turn left. Go 0.4 miles to Mount Olive C. M. E. Church. Walk straight into the cemetary and go to the far side. | Blues Traveling p 213 | Desoto | ||
| John Collier Plantation in Dunleith | plantation | Jimmy Reed was born here, Charlie Patton performed here many times. "Bull Cow" lived here and later became better known as Howling Wolf. Willie Foster lived here from about the age of six on. | Life in the Delta, July 2003, article by Billy Johnson, pp 21-22 | Dunleith | Dunleith | Washington |
| Johnny Ace Grave | Cemetary/headstones | R&B Singer/Pianist. Ace was born John Marshall Alexander. He began his career in 1952 when he signed on as a member of the Beale Streeters on the Duke Record Label, a label owned by DJ David Mattis. He worked with such musicians as, The Flying Aces, Cathy Lemons, Anton Fig, Witon Felder, Henry Boozier, Bobby Forte, David Spinozza, Dean Parks, Hugh McCracken, B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Earl Forest, and The Johnny Otis Orchestra. | http://www.findagrave.com/ | New Park Cemetary | Horn Lake | Desoto |
| Johnson Street | Paved ways of historic note | David "Honeyboy" Edwards saw Robert Johnson playing in an alley off Johnson Street in 1937. Other blues musicians to play on this street include Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James, and Tommy McClennan. | Blues Traveling pp. 113-114. | Johnson Street | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Juneteenth Heritage Festival | event | Emancipation day celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the American South. Heritage presentation award, health screening, political forum, music (gospel, jazz, R&B, Hip Hop and Blues), children's activity area, food, poetry and fraternity and sorority step. | MS Tourism files | P.O. Box 1430 | Meridian | Lauderdale |
| Junior Kimrough's grave | grave/headstones | from Holly Springs, go 10 miles north on highway 7. One mile past Bolden's Grocery, turn left on Clear Creek Road and go 1 mile to Kimbrough Church Road. Turn left and go for 1/3 mile to the cemetary. Walk straight in for 20 yards. | Blues Traveling p 207 | Hudsonville | Marshall | |
| Junior Kimrough's Jook Joint | juke joint | Destroyed by fire on April 6, 2000. This was "perhaps the wildest blues spot in the world" at that time. Kimbrough relocated here from the Chewalla Rib Shack. | Blues Traveling p 205 | Holly Springs | Marshall | |
| Keyhole Inn | Juke joints | A jukebox but rarely live music. | Blues Highway, p. 110. | Near Church and Second | Indianola | Sunflower |
| King Edward Hotel | historic building | Okeh record label had a studio here starting in 1930 | Blues Traveling, p. 155 | Pearl and Mill Street | jackson | Hinds |
| Kirby Willis Plantation | historic site | Piansit Louise Johnson lived here, Charley Patton wrote Joe Kirby Blues about the owner | Jim O'Neal's Blues Map Kit, p. 1 and Blues Traveling, pp. 50-51. | Just inside Tunica County on Highway 61 | Tunica | |
| Kozy Korner | Juke joints | Owned by singer-guitarist Jim Yarbor and his wife Mary, and open since 1971. Blues juke box, pool tables, and food | Blues Traveling, p. 146. | 109 George Lee St | Belzoni | Humphreys |
| Lake Cormorant/Clack | historic site | Lake Cormorant is often sited as the site of the Clack commisary (Clack's Store) and Clack Train Stop, where Son House recorded for the Library of Congress in 1941. The actual site is closer to Robinsonville, and has been destroyed. It is still called Clack on maps, but is now under the Bally's casion complex. | Jim O'Neal's Blues Map Kit, p. 1 | Tunica | ||
| Lamar Williams | Cemetary/headstones | Musician. Bass guitarist who replaced Berry Oakley in the Allman Brothers Band in 1972 after his death. He played with the band until 1976, playing on three albums (2 studio, one live), one of which was the classic hit album, "Brothers And Sisters." After playing with the ABB, he went to play with Sea Level, playing on all their albums until they broke up in 1980. He soon got sick with Agent Orange-related cancer (since he was a Vietnam Vet in the Army), and he died from it in 1983. | http://www.findagrave.com/ | Veteran's Cemetary | Biloxi | Harrison |
| Leflore County Courthouse | Courthouse | Where a judge ruled that Claud L. Johnson is the biological son of Robert Johnson and sole heir. The courthouse also has copies of Johnson's 2 marriage certificates and his death certificate. | Blues Traveling, pp. 114-115. | Market at Fulton | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Leland Blues and Block Party | event | Enjoy crawfish, barbecue and Blues in downtown Leland under the "Highway 61 Bluesman" Mural. | Mississippi Division of Tourism | P.O. Box 251 | Leland | Washington |
| Leland Blues Murals | Murals | Painted by Delta artist Cristen Craven Barnard, musician and artist Jay Kirgis and others in 2000, these murals depict musicians from the Leland area, including Jimmy Reed, Little Milton, Eddie Cusic, Willie Foster, James "Son" Thomas, and Johnny and Edgar Winter, . | Blues Traveling, p. 139. | Fourth between Broad and Main, and at Main and Third | Leland | Washington |
| Lenora's Lounge | Indoor venues/clubs | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Front Street | Ruleville | Sunflower | |
| Leo's Grocery | Indoor venues/club | This is a restaurant attached to a gas station and grocery next to the entrance to Great River Road State Park. Paul "Wine" Jones and other blues musicians play here on Saturday nights. | Blues Traveling, p. 105. | Rosedale | Bolivar | |
| Leroy's Blues House | Indoor venues/clubs | 800 Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington | ||
| Little Wynn Nelson Street Festival | Special events/Festivals | Held on the Friday of the Saturday Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. A free event with live music, food, and vendors. | Blues Traveling, p. 132 | Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Living Blues Magazine offices | blues magazine | founded by Jim O'Neal and Amy van Singel in 1970 (in Chicago) and moved to Oxford where it is part of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. | Blues Traveling p 198 | Third floor, Hill Hall, University of Mississippi | Oxford | Lafayette |
| Lonnie Pitchford Grave | grave/headstones | Newport M. B. Church. Take highway 14 from 55 west for 1.3 miles to the T intersection. This is where Elmore James was born. Go north on 17 at the T for 2.6 miles to Newport Road. Turn left on Newport and go 3.9 miles to the church. | Blues Traveling p. 170 and www.findagrave.com | Ebenezer | Holmes | |
| Lula | Historic town | Son House and Charlie Patton lived here around 1930. House wrote "Dry Spell Blues" about a dry summer here | Blues Traveling, p. 55 | highway 49 west off highway 61 | Lula | Tunica |
| MACE offices | organization | Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc (MACE) was founded in 1967, and has had board members including Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Annie Devine, and Unita Blackwell. MACE sponsors the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival each year. The main office has a collection of festival posters on display. | Landmarks, Legends and Lyrics, Washington County CVB | 119 South Theobald St. | Greenville | Washington |
| Mac's Lounge | Juke joints | Big Jack Johnson's performance from the film Deep Blues was shot here in 1990 when it was the Pastime Lounge. | Blues Traveling, p. 79. | 426 Desoto | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Malaco Records | recording studio | famous studio with tours by appointment only | Blues Traveling, p. 168 | 3023 W. Northside Drive | jackson | Hinds |
| McLaurin Motel and Lounge, AKA C.W.'s | Juke joints | Local blues bands sometimes play here. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Mixon Street | Winstonville | Bolivar |
| Memphis Minnie's grave | Graves/Headstones | The guitarist and singer lived 1897-1973. Headstone commissioned by the Mount Zion Foundation | Blues Traveling, p. 48-49, with information on tours provided by Malaco and the Jackson CVB | Norfolk Road | Walls | Tunica |
| Memphis Minnie's Grave (Lizzie "Kid" Douglas Lawlers 'Memphis Minnie' ) | grave/headstones | take highway 302 from new 61 to old 61 and turn right. Go 2 miles to intersection with sign that says "church" and turn right on Old Norfolk Road. Go one mile to New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on the right. | Blues Traveling, p. 48 | Norfolk Road | Walls | Desoto |
| Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival | event | Oldest blues festival in the Delta | 119 South Theobald St. | Greenville | Washington | |
| Mississippi Delta Blues Hall of Fame | Exhibits/Museums | Plaques honoring recipients of the Pea Vine Awards. | Blues Traveling, p. 103. | Charles W. Capps Archives and Museum, Delta State University | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| Mississippi John Hurt Grave | Mississippi John Hurt, 3/8/1892-11/2/1966, is buried in St. James Cemetery | |||||
| Mississippi John Hurt home site | Historic homes | Mississippi John Hurt lived here. Hurt's daughter and friends and family have turned the house into a museum honoring this blues legend. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 5 | Avalon | Carroll | |
| Mounds Landing | historic site | On April 21, 1927, the levee crevassed at this site, flooding the entire lower delta to a deapth of up to 20 feet and causing great loss of life and property commemorated in various Blues songs. | Rizing Tide, John Barry, p. 220 | Bolivar | ||
| Mr. B's Lounge | juke joint | blues on Friday and Saturday nights | Blues Traveling, p. 158 | 1106 Gallatin St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Muddy Waters cabin | historic home | The house site is on the Stoval Plantation, but the cabin itself has been cleaned up and is now inside the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. | Blues Traveling p. 86 | 1 Blues Alley | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Muddy Waters home site | Plantations; Historic Markers; Historic Homes | Site of house where Muddy Waters lived until he left for Chicago in 1943. The original part of the house is now inside the Delta Blues Museum. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 3 | Stovall Road | Stovall | Coahoma |
| Mural of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Bessie Smith | Mural | Next to the Corner Grocery. | On the south side of Carmen's Pawn Shop, Sunflower at E. Second Street | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Murals of Sonny Boy Williamson and W. C. Handy | Mural | Murals painted by Tutwiler artist Cristen Craven Barnard and her students | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | ||
| Murphy | film location | abandoned white building with a wood porch at the intersection of Sunflower Road and Murphy Road is where the 1968 film "Crossroads" had willie Brown and Eugene Martone meet a runaway girl. | Blues Traveling, p. 148 | Murphy | Washington | |
| Music Mart | Music stores | Features blues and R&B | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | 161 N. Main St. | Drew | Sunflower |
| Nelson Street | juke joints | a stip of jook joints that flourished from the 40's to the 70's and saw performacnes by the likes of Little Milton, Eddie Cusic, Charley Booker, Willie Love, T-Model Ford, Little Bill Wallace, and others. Black owned businesses include Andserson's Photo Service, Brown's Bakery, The Casablanca, May's Restaurant, The Flowing fountain, Bailey's Restaurant, The Green Grill, Pete's Barber Shop, Celestine's Shoe Shine Shop, Union Cab, The Playboy Club, and Annie's Soul Food Cafe. | Blues Traveling, p. 132 and Landmarks, Legends and Lyrics, Washington County Tourism, p. 7 | Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington |
| New Roxy Theater | Indoor venues/clubs | This was one of the two movie theaters for African Americans. Live performances also took place here, including Clarksdale native Sam Cooke. | Blues Traveling, p. 76 | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Nickson's Disco Club | juke joints | On Magnolia Street, downtown Tunica | Blues Traveling, p. 54, and personal experience (Luther Brown) | magnolia street, tunica | Tunica | Tunica |
| Ol Miss Blues Archives | museum | Extensive collection of blues recordings, reference books and other memorabilia, including the personal collection of blues ledgend, B. B. King. | MS Tourism files | University of Mississippi | Oxford | Lafayette |
| Old Capitol Museum | museum, historic building | Open 8-5, M-F, 9:30-4:30 Sat., 12:30-4:30 Sunday | Blues Traveling, p. 154 | State Street at Capitol Street | jackson | Hinds |
| Old Jailhouse | Historic building | Charley Patton spent time here and wrote about his experience in "High Sheriff Blues." | Blues Traveling, p. 145. | 100 block of Hayden Street | Belzoni | Humphreys |
| Old River Coffee House | Indoor venues/clubs | Live music most weekends | Blues Highway, p. 118. | 138 Walnut Street | Greenville | Washington |
| One Block East | Indoor venues/clubs | Live music several nights a week. | Blues Highway, p. 118. | 240 Washington Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Othar Turner | historic site | Othar Turner hosted regular picnics on his farm during the last weekend of August. Turner's fife and drum performances were an important part of the three day picnics | Blues Traveling p 210 | Gravel Springs | Tate | |
| Oxford Nightclubs | juke joints | Live music is alive and well in Oxford. Check out Bodega (1008 E. Jackson Ave., 662-236-3666), Proud Larry's (211 S. Lamar, 662-236-0050) and The Gin (Harrison St., 662-234-0024). | Blues Traveling p 198 | Oxford | Lafayette | |
| Parchman Penitentiary | Prison establishments | Bukka White, David Malone, Son House, and Sonny Boy Williamson were imprisoned here. A Library of Congress recordings were made here in the 30's and 40's. A group of inmates called the Confiners did a 45 here in 1961. The Parchman Prison Band occasionally performs at regional events. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 and NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 247 | Highway 49W at Highway 32 | Parchman | Sunflower |
| Pascagoula Street | historic district | Bo Carter lived on this street in the 1930's. He played with his brothers Sam, Lonnie, and Harry Chatmon, and many blues performers were regulars here. | Blues Traveling, p. 156 | jackson | Hinds | |
| Paul Burlson grave | Cemetary/headstones | Rockabilly Singer. Guitarist for the Memphis, Tennessee, musical group, 'Johnny Burnette And The Rock 'N' Roll Trio,' along with Johnny Burnette as vocalist, and Dorsey Burnette on bass. The group had a recording contract with the Decca Records label who they recorded with until the group disbanded in March 1957. The group recorded many songs including, 'Tear It Up,' 'You're Undecided,' 'Oh Baby Baby,' 'Midnight Train,' 'Shattered Dreams,' 'The Train Kept A Rollin,' and 'Oh Baby,' among many | http://www.findagrave.com/ | Hinds Chapel Cemetary | Lake Cormorant | Desoto |
| Pea Vine Awards | Special events/Festivals | Held since 1998 to honor Mississippi Delta musicians. Honorees include Charley Patton, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Robert Lockwood, Henry Townsend, Robert Johnson, Ike Turner etc | Cleveland | Bolivar | ||
| Pearl Lounge | Juke joints | Behind the lot where the Harlem Inn once stood. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Mixon Street | Winstonville | Bolivar |
| Perry's Flowing Fountain | Juke Joint/Club | Opened in the 1970s, this large club and café has live music during Greenville's Delta Blues and Heritage Festival every September. Other nights throughout the year it has a deejay playing oldies, funk, and soul blues. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 5; Blues Traveling p. 134, and Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | 816 Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Playboy Club | Indoor venues/clubs | Once owned 1982-1992 by the late Booba Barnes, where footage in the movie Deep Blues was shot. Now a church. | Blues Traveling, p. 135. | 928 Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Poindexter Park Inn | Blues B and B | Marcia Weaver's great bed and breakfast dedicated to the blues | Blues Traveling, p. 167 | 803 Deer Park St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Poor Monkey's | Juke joints | One of the last authentic rural jooks. Features a deejay on Thursday nights playing soul blues and occasional live blues music. Owner Willie Seeberry (Poor Monkey) welcomes all and changes in to several different colorful suits each night. | Blues Traveling, pp. 100-101. | Merigold | Bolivar | |
| Pops Staples Festival | Special events/festivals | Organized by Marvin Flemmons, owner of the Music Mart. Formerly held every June, now unplanned. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Drew | Sunflower | |
| Queen of Hearts | juke joint | live music on most Sundays | Blues Traveling, p. 157 | 2243 Martin Luther King Dr. | jackson | Hinds |
| Ralph Lembo's Store | Music stores | Now vacant store once owned by Sicilian-born Ralph Lembo, who sold furniture and music. Lembo brought Blind Lemon Jefferson to his store for a performance in 1927. Lembo auditioned Rubin Lacy and Bukka White at the store in the late 1920s-1930. | Blues Traveling, pp. 118-119. | 114 Humphreys Street | Itta Bena | Leflore |
| Rattlesnake Bayou Levee | historic structure | Built by slaves from the Plum Ridge, Wildwood, Locust, and Swiftwater Plantations in the 1840's. The visible section was on the Locust Plantation grounds. | Landmarks, Legends and Lyrics, Washington County CVB | Bayou and Lela Lane | Greenville | Washington |
| Record Mart/Trumpet Record Company/Diamond Recording Studio | recording studio | old entry door is bricked up now | Blues Traveling, p. 161 | 309 N. Farish St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Red Hot and Blue | restaurant | interesting blues décor | Blues Traveling, p. 168 | 1625 E. County Line Road | jackson | Hinds |
| Red Top Lounge | Indoor venues/clubs | The Jelly Roll Kings featuring Frank Frost, Big Jack Johnson, and Sam Carr, were the house band at this juke. Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm performed here in 1951. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 11 | 377 Yazoo Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Red's | Juke joints | Big Jack Johnson, Super Chikan, Wesley Jefferson band, Terry "Big T" Williams, Norway's Spoonful of Blues, and others have performed here in recent years. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 11. | 395 Sunflower Ave | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Reese's | Juke joints | Live music on Sunday nights, deejay Friday and Saturday | Martin Luther King | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Rhythm Club Fire site | Historic site | The Natchez Rhythm Club burned on April 23, 1940, killing 260 people,including the orchestra that was playing that night | Blues Traveling p. 178 | Natchez | Adams | |
| Rhythm Club monument | Historic marker | marker for the Rhythm Club fire fatalities | Blues Traveling p. 178 | Natchez | Adams | |
| River City Blues Museum | museum | Largest blues collection on public display in the world. Guitars, history, videos, fascinating pictures, pianos, rare records. Instruments also for visitors to play. | MS Tourism files | 821 Clay St | Vicksburg | Warren |
| River Mount Lounge | Juke Joint | Kitchen serves "the best fish dinners around." | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 235 | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Riverside Hotel | Building of historic note | In the 1930s this was the G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital. Bessie Smith died here after a car wreck on Highway 61 north of town. Mrs. Z.L. Hill converted the hospital into a hotel in 1944. Robert Nighthawk, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ike Turner, Peck Curtis, Joe Willie Wilkins, Raymond Hill, and others lived here. Mrs. Hill's son, Frank Ratliff, still operates the place and has a loyal international clientele. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 12 and NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 235 | 615 Sunflower Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Robert Johnson - Three Forks former site | Juke Joint | It is said that Robert Johnson was poisoned at this juke joint | oral history | Intersection of 82 and 49 | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Robert Johnson birthplace | birthplace | Johnson was born here but left as a baby for Memphis. He returned to look for his father aroudn 1930, and apprenticed to a bluesman named Ike Zinnerman. This is where he really learned to play slide guitar. | Blues Traveling p. 174 | Hazelhurst | Copia | |
| Robert Johnson Memorial (at Mt. Zion M.B. Church) | Religious building and site | There is controversy surrounding Robert Johnson's actual burial site; some argue that he is buried at Payne M.B. chapel in Quito, MS. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 243 | between Itta Bena and Morgan City | Leflore | |
| Robert Johnson Memorial Monument | Graves/Headstones | At the Mt. Zion M.B. Church cemetery. This memorial was sponsored by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, organized by Skip Henderson. The fund has also provided markers for several other blues musicians buried in the Delta. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 7. | Highway 7 | Morgan City | Leflore |
| Robert Johnson monument | monument | Hazelhurst town square has several interesting markers, inclduing this one | Blues Traveling p. 174 | Hazelhurst | Copia | |
| Robert Johnson Tombstone | Graves/Headstones | In the cemetery next to the Payne Chapel M.B. Church. A girlfriend of Johnson identified this as his burial site. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 7 | Highway 512 West off Highway 7 | Quito | Leflore |
| Robert Johnson's death - Star of the West Plantation | Plantation | Noted in texts as the place where Robert Johnson died | oral history | At intersection of 82 and 49 | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Robert Johnson's hang out in Baptist Town | Location | It is said that Robert Johnson had a room in this Greenwood neighborhood the summer he was poisoned | oral history | Young Street | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Robert Johnson's Tombstone | Grave/ Headstone | In the controversy surrounding Robert Johnson's actual burial site, some argue that he is buried at Mt. Zion M.B. Church. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 243 | Quito | Leflore | |
| Robinsonville | Historic town | Robert Johnson played here before he "met the devil" and learned to play well. Wilie Brown and Son House both played here. Foster's Café is an abandoned jook joint. | Blues Traveling, p. 50 | old highway 61 | ||
| Rolling Fork | Birth places | Muddy Waters was born here on April 4, 1915. Monument on courthouse Square to Watters | Blues Traveling, p. 150 | Rolling Fork | Sharkey | |
| Rust College | college | Mississippi's oldest Black college, established in 1866, and home of the Rust college Quartet in the 1920's. | Blues Traveling p 203 | 150 Rust Avenue | Holly Springs | Marshall |
| Sam Chatmon's Grave | Graves/headstones | Sam Chatmon, 1899-1983. | Blues Traveling, pp. 147-148. | Sanders Memorial Garden on Morgan Street | Hollandale | Washington |
| Sandbar | Indoor venues/clubs | Some live blues, some country | Blues Highway, p. 118. | 129 Walnut Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Sarah's Kitchen | Juke joints | Opened in 1997, this club regularly features the Wesley Jefferson band on Thursday nights. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 13. | 208 Sunflower Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Sardis Courthouse | historic building | no longer in use as a jail, but where Robert Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson were held for vagrancy in 1935 | Blues Traveling p 211 | 215 Pocahontas St. | Sardis | Panola |
| Shack-Up Inn | Historic homes; lodging | Shotgun houses have been moved to the grounds of Hopson Plantation and have been renovated and made available for visitors to stay overnight. | Blues Traveling 83 | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Smitty's Red Top Lounge | Juke Joint | No visitor services available | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 234 | Clarksdale | Coahoma | |
| Son Thomas' Grave | Grave/headstone | Bogue Memorial Cemetary | Blues Traveling, p. 140 | Washington | ||
| Sonny Boy Williamson's Grave | Graves/headstones | Williamson, AKA Aleck "Rice" Miller, died June 23, 1965, and is buried here in a family plot. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 3; Blues Traveling, p. 91 | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | |
| Sonny Boy Williamson's grave (beside Whitfield M.B. Church) | Grave/ Headstone | Building does not look like a church. Grave is hard to find. Fans often leave harmonicas, spare change, etc. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 247 | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | |
| Southern crosses the Dog | Historic markers | A state historical marker commemorates the place where the Southern Railroad and the Yazoo Delta (AKA Yellow Dog) Railroad intersect. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. | Moorhead | Sunflower | |
| Southern crosses the Dog | Outdoor area of historic note | Once a meeting point for Delta residents, both black and white took the Yellow Dog from rural Mississippi to Memphis. Original structure of café (1920) burned and was rebuilt in 1980's | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 246 | Moorhead | Sunflower | |
| Southern crosses the Dog | Railroad | Two train rails, the Columbus-Greenville (Southern) and the Yazoo-Delta (Yellow Dog) intersect here, "where the Southern crosses the Dog." Some say the initials Y.D. inspired the name Yellow Dog; others say there was such a dog that barked at it. W.C. Handy sang about this crossing, Eudora Welty wrote about it, and Carroll Cloar painted it. | Touring Literary Mississippi, Patti Car Black and Marion Barnwell, 25 | Off Highway 3 south of Highway 82 at the railroad crossing | Moorhead | Sunflower |
| Speir Phonography Company | historic building | Henry C. Speir's famous music store and recording company | Blues Traveling, p. 159 | 225 Farish Street | jackson | Hinds |
| Spotlite Lounge | Indoor venues/clubs | Nelson Street | Greenville | Washington | ||
| St. James Cemetery | Grave/ Headstone | Cemetery where bluesman "Mississippi" John Hurt from Avalon is buried. Open to the public, cemetery is off a dirt road and difficult to find. Grave is located at the back of the cemetery. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 244 | Avalon | Leflore | |
| St. Peter's United Methodist Church | historic building | Lifeboat Church, where Howlin' Wolf sang as a boy, and St. Peter's United Methodist Church, established in the mid-1800s, combined in the 1960s to form St. Peter's. | MS Tourism files | 503 Hwy 25 S. | Aberdeen | Munroe |
| Stackhouse/Delta Record Mart and Recording Studios | record production venue | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 234 | Clarksdale | Coahoma | ||
| Staples Park | Outdoor areas of historic note | Pops Staples, founder of the legendary Staples Singers, was born on Dockery Plantation between Cleveland and Ruleville. This park honors the Staples family. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Drew | Sunflower | |
| Subway Lounge | juke joint | opens at midnight on Friday and Saturday | Blues Traveling, p. 165 | 619 W. Pearl, Basement of the Summers Hotel | jackson | Hinds |
| Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival | Special events/Festivals | First held in 1988, this annual festival happens the second weekend in August and features local and Mississippi blues and gospel artists. | Delta Blues Map Kit, pp. 13-14. | P.O. Box 1562 | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| T.W. Mitchum Furniture Store | Site of B.B. King's first radio appearance w/ Gospel group "St. John's Singers" on WJPR | "Blues All Around Me" Autobiography of B.B. King p. 76 | ? | Greenwood | Leflore | |
| The Barn | juke joint | Harold "Hardface" Clanton was "Tunicas first Black Millionaire." He ran a club in Tunica that was forced to close each night at 2am, when he opened The Barn, which remained open until about 6am. Many bluesmen including B.B. King played in The Barn | Tunica Museum guide | Tunica | Tunica | |
| The Crib | juke joint | Another of the last surviving rural jooks. Open from about 10pm to 2am. | Blues Traveling p. 178[6] | Church Hill | Jefferson | |
| The Meeting Place | Indoor venues/clubs | Neighborhood bar that sometimes has live blues. | Blues Traveling, p. 136. | 247 South 6th Street | Greenville | Washington |
| The New World | historic district | the historic Black business and jook joint district of Clarksdale. Vividly described by Alan Lomax, once a vibrant, jumping musical and cultural hotbed. | Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began, p 28-32 | Martin Luther King and the old railroad tracks | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| The University of Mississippi Blues Archives | museum | 33,000 recordings. Ask for assistance from the staff | Blues Traveling p 196 | Room 340 Farley Hall in the music library | Oxford | Lafayette |
| Three Forks Store | Juke joints | House that may have been the Three Forks Store where Robert Johnson played his last gig. | Blues Traveling, p. 120. | Highway 7 about 3 miles south of Itta Bena | Quito | Leflore |
| Tommy Johnson home | historic building | Tommy Johnson, Skip James, Elmore James, and others all lived in this house | Blues Traveling, p. 157 | 905 Ann Banks St. | jackson | Hinds |
| Tommy McClennan's home | Location | 100 block of McLaurin Street where Tommy McClennan lived (with wife Ophelia) | oral history | McLaurin Street | Greenwood | Leflore |
| Top Ten | Indoor venues/clubs | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Front Street | Ruleville | Sunflower | |
| Tunica | Historic Town, Museum | One of the poorest towns in the US in the 1980's, and now beneficiary of much casino revenue, Tunica was famous for its "sugar ditch" region and abject poverty. Visited by the likes of Bobby Kennedy, Bob Dylan, and Martin Luther King. Tunica also formerly had several jooks, especially owned by a flamboyant man named Hardface. | Blues Traveling, p. 54, and personal experience (Luther Brown) | Highway 61 | Tunica | Tunica |
| Tunica Museum | Museum | Small but well done blues collection, a new and well planned local museum | Tunica Museum guide | Museum Blvd, Tunica, off Highway 61 | Tunica | Tunica |
| Tutwiler Community Education Center | Community Center; Arts | The center sells postcards of the local blues sites as well as quilts made by older women of Tutwiler. | 301 Hancock | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | |
| Tutwiler Train Station site | In 1903, W. C. Handy heard "a lean, loose-jointed Negro" playing guitar with a knife and singing about "Goin' where the Southern cross the Dog" at the train station that once stood on this site. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 3 | Tutwiler | Tallahatchie | ||
| Uncle Joe Cooper Grave | Grave/headstone | Bogue Memorial Cemetary | Life in the Delta, July 2003, article by Billy Johnson, pp 21-22 | Washington | ||
| Unique Social Club | Juke joints | Occasional live music. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Wilson Ave. | Drew | Sunflower |
| University of Mississippi Museums | Museum | 10am-4:30 Tuesday to Saturday and 1-4pm Sundays. Folk art room includes work by Son Thomas of Leland | Blues Traveling p 198 | University Avenue at fifth St. | Oxford | Lafayette |
| W. C. Handy Historical Marker | Historic marker | Marker commemorates the site of Handy's revelation that he could build a career playing blues music. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Cleveland | Bolivar | |
| W. C. Handy Home Site | Historic marker | Alabama native W.C. Handy lived on this site for a few years beginning in 1903. He led a 9-piece band called the Knights of Pythias while in Clarksdale. | NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 246, and Blues Traveling, p.76 | Between 309 and 317 Issaquena Avenue, near Third St. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| W.C. Handy Mural | Mural commemorates Handy's first encounter w/ the blues in 1903 at train station that was once here | Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | 7 miles South of Clarksdale on 61 | Tutwiler | ||
| Wade Walton's Barber Shop | Building of historic note | Walton, who played guitar, harmonica, and razor strop, operated this barbershop from 1989 until his death in 2000. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 10; Blues Traveling, pp. 76-77, NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 233 | 317 Issaquena Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |
| Walnut Street Bar and Grill (formerly Walnut Street Bait Shop) | Indoor venues/club | John Horton, Mississippi Slim and the Special Occasion Band play here many weekends. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 5; Blues Traveling p. 135. | 128 Walnut Street | Greenville | Washington |
| Washbucket | Mural | Mural inside this laundry depicting blues Greats Sam Carr, Lonnie Shields, and Bennie Jones. Painted by Gwendolyn Cannon in 1990. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 2 and Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | west off 61 at 49 | Lula | Coahoma |
| West Point Mural | mural | on the side of Lyon Insurance, 325 Commerce St, depicting the history of West Point | Blues Traveling p 188 | 325 Commerce | West Point | Clay |
| WGRM | Radio | B.B. King made first live radio broadcast circa 1940 | oral history | 222 Howard Street | Greenwood | Leflore |
| White's Cemetary | Cemetary/headstones | Old maps show Crosstown Road intersecting Bonnie Blue Road in this cemetary. Robert Johnson lived at Bonnie Blue Plantation nearby, and the crossroads has been identified by some as one where he might have met the devil. | Tunica Museum guide | Crosstown Road and Bonnie Blue Road | Tunica | |
| Whitfield Church Graveyard/Sonny Boy Williamson II grave site | Burial place of Sonny Boy Williamson (Aleck Miller, 1908-65) great blues harp player | Deep South- Lonely Planet Books John T. Edge | Close to above mentioned mural | Tutwiler | Coahoma | |
| Wilie Nix grave | Grave/headstone | Bogue Memorial Cemetary | Life in the Delta, July 2003, article by Billy Johnson, pp 21-22 | Washington | ||
| Willie Brown grave | Cemetary/headstones | Buried in Good Shepard Cemetary, just north of Prichard off highway 3. Willie Brown was a side man for Charlie Patton and Son House, and Robert Johnsons called him "friend-boy" in Crossroads Blues. | Tunica Museum guide | Good Shepard Cemetary | Prichard | Tunica |
| Willie Foster grave | Graves/Headstones | The cemetery is next to the Holly Ridge Gin and near the New Jerusalem M.B. Church, which employed Patton to sing religious songs in the 1930s. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 6. | Holly Ridge Road | Holly Ridge | Sunflower |
| Winery Rushing | Outdoor areas of historic note | Mississippi's first legal winery since Prohibition, operated until 1990 by descendants of Tom Rushing, deputy sheriff of Bolivar County who is the subject of Charley Patton's Tom Rushen Blues. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 4 | Highway 61 | Cleveland | Bolivar |
| WROX Studio | Radio; National Register | The radio station moved to this location in 1945. Early Wright began his radio career here in 1947. Robert Nighthawk, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Ike Turner all appeared live on the air from the studio on the second floor of this building. | Delta Blues Map Kit, p. 11; Blues Traveling pp. 77-79, NPS Draft Heritage Study, pg 233. | 257 Delta Ave. | Clarksdale | Coahoma |