Historical Marker
Houston Stackhouse
Wesson, Copiah County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Blues Commission
Houston Stackhouse taught guitar to his distant cousin Robert Nighthawk and later followed him to Helena, Arkansas, where he worked days at the Chrysler plant in West Helena from 1948 to 1954 and played blues in his spare time. In 1967 he recorded with George Mitchell as the Blues Rhythm Boys near Dundee, Mississippi. His one trip abroad took him to Vienna in 1976. He died in Helena in 1980, aged 69. The marker stands on Eighth Street in Wesson, north of Cemetery Street, in the Copiah County town where he was born.
Where it stands
31.70235, -90.38983 · Directions
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