Bobby Gene Emmons

Bobby Emmons was the keyboardist whose parts are on records people know by heart. Born in Corinth on February 19, 1943, he joined Bill Black's band in 1960 and later played with the Memphis Boys at Chips Moman's American Sound Studio, on Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds and In the Ghetto, Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man, Merrilee Rush's Angel of the Morning and Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. With Moman he co-wrote Luckenbach, Texas, a hit for Waylon Jennings. He toured with the Highwaymen and died in 2015.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 0.5 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 1.2 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Big Hill Pond State Park — 14 mi
  A 4,000-acre bottomland park in McNairy County built around a pond that railroad crews dug in 1853, with a 70-foot tower over Dismal Swamp and Civil War earthworks.
• Shiloh Indian Mounds — 18 mi
  A National Historic Landmark on the Tennessee River bluff: the remains of a palisaded Mississippian-era town with seven mounds and the visible rings of its house sites, inside Shiloh National Military Park.

More markers nearby

• Corinth — steps away
• Grant's Headquarters — 0.2 mi
• Generals' Headquarters — 0.2 mi
• Johnston's Headquarters — 0.3 mi