Eddie Taylor

Eddie Taylor taught himself guitar as a boy and played around Leland, where he taught his friend Jimmy Reed the instrument. Taylor moved to Chicago in 1948 and never reached the fame of some peers, but he was an integral accompanist: Reed's main sideman, who also worked for John Lee Hooker and other Chicago stars. Reed's records leaned on Taylor's steady rhythm work. Taylor died on Christmas Day 1985, nearly four decades after he reached Chicago.

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