Elmore James

Elmore James is remembered for putting Robert Johnson's slide style through an amplifier, but he was also a writer. He is credited with songs including "The Sky Is Crying" and "Hand in Hand," though he was better known for covering others. After his Trumpet hit he moved to Chicago to front the Broomdusters for hungry crowds, yet he kept returning to Mississippi, often to his half-brother in Canton. He died in Chicago in 1963, and Jimi Hendrix later acknowledged the debt when he recorded "Bleeding Heart." This marker stands at a rural Holmes County church.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 23 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 30 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

More markers nearby

• Robert G. Clark Jr. — 2.7 mi
• O.E.S. Birthplace — 4.1 mi
• PFC Milton Lee Olive III — 6.7 mi
• Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory — 7.3 mi