Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton claimed he recorded with the Memphis Jug Band in the late 1920s, but no recording survives and he would have been about six, so historians treat the story as tall talk. What is documented is a 1939 Memphis session backing guitarist Little Buddy Doyle, and lessons he gave to the young James Cotton and Little Walter in the 1940s. Willie Dixon called him "the best harmonica player I ever heard." Horn Lake lies just south of the Tennessee line, along Center Street East.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Graceland — 5.8 mi
  Elvis Presley's 1939 limestone house in Whitehaven, bought in 1957 and opened as a ticketed museum in 1982, with his grave in the Meditation Garden and a commercial visitor campus around it.
• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 9.0 mi
  A National Historic Landmark Mississippian mound town on a bluff over the Mississippi, with a university museum, a replica house and a nature trail inside T. O. Fuller State Park.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 11 mi
  A rebuilt Stax studio on the site of the old Capitol Theatre, with a replica of the sloped-floor Studio A, Isaac Hayes's Cadillac and the story of an integrated soul label.
• Elmwood Cemetery — 11 mi
  Memphis's oldest active cemetery, a rural garden cemetery of about 1,500 trees opened in 1852, with Black civic leaders, yellow fever victims and the city's whole history in its lots.

More markers nearby

• Wooten Fallout Shelter — 3.6 mi
• Elvis Presley's Circle G Ranch — 3.9 mi
• Capleville Church of Christ/Easthaven Church of Christ — 5.6 mi
• Elvis Aron Presley — 5.9 mi