Historical Marker
Little Brother Montgomery
Brookhaven, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Blues Commission, 2011
Little Brother Montgomery's reach is easy to miss. His piano instrumental "Crescent City Blues" inspired a Gordon Jenkins song that Johnny Cash later adapted as "Folsom Prison Blues." He started piano at four, left home at eleven to play barrelhouses, and led a jazz band, the Southland Troubadours, in Jackson from 1931 to 1938. In 1969 he founded his own label, FM Records. He died in Illinois in 1985 and entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2013. The marker stands beside the Amtrak terminal on North Railroad Avenue in Brookhaven.
Where it stands
31.58312, -90.44118 · Directions
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