Documenting the Blues

Living Blues began in Chicago in 1970 and put Howlin' Wolf on its first cover. From the start it ran long articles and extensive reviews, covering lesser-known artists alongside stars like Muddy Waters. It also publishes an annual directory of blues clubs, radio stations, festivals and agents, and gives yearly awards. Founders Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel and Bruce Iglauer ran it while it was based in Chicago. In 1983 the University of Mississippi bought the magazine, and it moved to Oxford, where the Center for the Study of Southern Culture publishes it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 0.2 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Rowan Oak — 0.7 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• Oxford Square — 0.8 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 15 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• "Dead House" — steps away
• Barnard Observatory — steps away
• Ventress Hall — steps away
• Hilgard Cut — 0.2 mi