Eddie Shaw

Eddie Shaw worked for both of Chicago's great bandleaders. Muddy Waters brought him into his band in the late 1950s, where he shared the tenor sax chair with A.C. Reed. In 1972 Shaw joined Howlin' Wolf and co-wrote half the songs on The Back Door Wolf. When Wolf died in 1976, Shaw took over the band and its residency at the 1815 Club, renaming it Eddie's Place. He entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2014 and died in Chicago in 2018. The marker stands in Benoit, at Main Street and Preston Street.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winterville Mounds — 12 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 17 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 17 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 22 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.

More markers nearby

• Eddie Taylor — steps away
• Mildrette Netter — 14 mi
• Honeyboy Edwards — 14 mi
• Hot Tamales and the Blues — 14 mi