Details and images of towns, localities and areas historically related to the blues, incorporating blues trail markers, state historical association markers, background information about the town and associated blues musicians, and photo galleries. Where appropriate there are also some details of musicians of other genre (gospel, soul, rock, etc.).
All location photography is from my personal collection taken during numerous Stateside trips.
Click on the following to see the list of locations for each state:
Alabama
including Birmingham and Montgomery
Arkansas
including Helena
California
including Los Angeles and San Francisco
Georgia
including Atlanta, Columbus, Macon and Statesboro
Illinois
including Cairo and Chicago
Louisiana
including New Orleans
Mississippi
including Clarksdale, Cleveland, Dockery Farms, Hazlehurst, Indianola, Jackson, Moorhead, Oxford and Port Gibson
Missouri
including St. Louis
Ohio
including Cincinnati
North Carolina
including Durham
South Carolina
including Charleston
Tennessee
including Chattanooga, Jackson, Memphis and Nashville
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Notes
1. Several details of locations in the section are taken from Wikipedia articles reproduced here for educational use only, augmented with photographs and links by Alan White
2. Source: www.wikipedia.org – used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC-BY-SA);