Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran left Mississippi with little and turned up in Nashville in 1960 after hitchhiking there instead of to Hollywood. At Pamper Music he wrote, and some evenings he played at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, where he noticed Willie Nelson and urged the company to sign him. His own songs soon outran him. Patsy Cline recorded I Fall to Pieces in November 1960 and She's Got You a year later, and Eddy Arnold turned Make the World Go Away, already a hit for Ray Price, into one of country music's biggest sellers. Cochran died in Nashville in July 2010.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 14 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Jaketown Site — 5.8 mi
• Pinetop Perkins — 6.2 mi
• Little Milton — 6.8 mi
• Turner's Drug Store — 7.7 mi