Johnny Russell

Johnny Russell's first published song, In a Mansion Stands My Love, was recorded by Jim Reeves in 1960 as the flip side of He'll Have to Go. Buck Owens cut Act Naturally in 1963, and the Beatles followed in 1965. Russell's own biggest hit, Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer, peaked at number four in October 1973 and stayed his only top ten. From 1987 he hosted an annual concert in his hometown, thirteen years running, the last on 29 April 2000. He died in Nashville in July 2001, aged 61, of complications of diabetes.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 8.0 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 20 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 — 20 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.
• Bryant's Grocery — 22 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.

More markers nearby

• Where the Southern Cross the Dog — steps away
• B.B. King Birthplace — 7.7 mi
• Freedom School Bombing — 8.1 mi
• Club Ebony — 8.1 mi