Ishmon Bracey

Talent scout H.C. Speir approached Ishmon Bracey in 1927 while Bracey was playing on Mill Street, with Victor Records in mind. Bracey had learned bottleneck guitar from Rubin Lacy and Louis Cooper before moving to the city in the late 1910s. His whole discography is only sixteen songs, which is why original 78-rpm copies rank among the most sought-after records in the field. He died in 1970 and was buried in Willow Park Cemetery, where he still lies.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 2.0 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 2.4 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 2.5 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.5 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Bobby Rush — 0.6 mi
• M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge — 1.0 mi
• Noel House — 1.2 mi
• Subway Lounge — 1.5 mi