Calhoun County Blues

Leo Welch, known as Bud, worked about thirty years as a lumberjack and sang gospel for decades before blues found him. His first record, Sabougla Voices, came out in January 2014 on Fat Possum and Big Legal Mess, when he was 81, and I Don't Prefer No Blues followed in March 2015. A feature documentary about him, Late Blossom Blues, appeared in 2017, and he played himself in the film Mississippi Grind. He died at home in Bruce on December 19, 2017, aged 85, and a last session was released two days later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Casey Jones Railroad Museum — 20 mi
  The old Illinois Central depot in Water Valley, where Casey Jones worked in the 1890s, with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker for the songs written about his death in 1900.
• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 30 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.

More markers nearby

• Thomas T. Gore — 9.6 mi
• Theora Hamblett — 15 mi
• Battle of Coffeeville — 18 mi
• Coffeeville — 19 mi