Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers was a founding partner in Muddy Waters's Chicago sound. About 1947 he and Little Walter helped form Waters's first Chicago band, a group nicknamed the Headcutters for taking jobs from other bands. In October 1950 Rogers had his own breakthrough with "That's All Right" on Chess, a record the Blues Foundation later honored as a blues standard. He left music for nearly a decade in the 1960s, returned after a 1971 European revival, and joined Muddy for the album I'm Ready in 1977. The marker stands in Ruleville Memorial Park.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 0.8 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Dockery Farms — 3.7 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 14 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.
• Mound Bayou — 15 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.

More markers nearby

• Greasy Street — steps away
• Staple Singers — 6.0 mi
• The Cleveland Chinese Mission School — 9.3 mi
• Chrisman Street — 9.6 mi