Jesse Robinson

Born in Benton and raised in Mileston, Jesse Robinson began on guitar at six, playing church with his father, a Holiness preacher. The family moved to Jackson, and in 1965 he left for Chicago. By one account he worked in a television factory by day and played with Magic Sam, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He came home in 1971. After B.B. King died in 2015 he was asked to lead the B.B. King Blues Band. His marker was unveiled on March 20, 2025, and two days later he was grand marshal of the St. Paddy's parade.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.3 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 — 0.7 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 — 0.8 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 — 3.1 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

• Scott Radio Service — steps away
• Edwards Hotel — steps away
• Ace Records — steps away
• Original SEC Office — steps away