Holmes County Blues

Lonnie Pitchford, born in Lexington in 1955, was one of few young Black Mississippians to learn the older Delta styles and keep them going. He played guitar, piano, bass and harmonica, and he made instruments, including the one-string diddley bow, which has African origins. A protege of Robert Lockwood Jr., he learned Robert Johnson's style and sometimes performed with Lockwood and Johnny Shines. He appeared in the 1990 film The Land Where the Blues Began, released his album All Round Man in 1994 and died in Lexington in 1998.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• Hazel Brannon Smith — steps away
• Lexington — steps away
• Bishop Charles H. Mason — steps away
• St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi