Mississippi Blues Trail Marker — Highway 61 South (Vicksburg)

Marker #64 on the Mississippi Blues Trail, erected 2009 near Washington and Jackson Streets, where U.S. Highway 61 threads through downtown Vicksburg. The highway was built through the 1920s and '30s, the same years blues, jazz, and gospel recordings by Black artists were taking off -- and it became blues' most-sung road, the route north out of the Delta that Muddy Waters and dozens of others took and sang about.