John Primer

As a boy near Camden, John Primer built a diddley bow from broom wire, two nails and a brick and played it for coins at his schoolyard. In 2008 his Chicago blues reached the concert hall, when he sang in the premiere of Three Songs for Bluesman and Orchestra, fronting the Chicago Sinfonietta at Dominican University. Between those scenes he served as Muddy Waters's guitarist and bandleader from 1980 to 1983 and then spent thirteen years with Magic Slim and the Teardrops. The marker, dedicated in 2026, stands at 110 Parkside in Camden.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 24 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 30 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.

More markers nearby

• Edmund Scarborough and John Scott — 11 mi
• Casey Jones — 12 mi
• Goodman School — 13 mi
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