Little Milton

Little Milton Campbell paid for his first guitar, a $14.40 model from a Marshall Field catalog, with money saved from picking cotton. The son of blues singer Big Milton Campbell, he fell for the guitar listening to the Grand Ole Opry. After Chess he joined Memphis's Stax label in 1971, adding horns and strings to his sound. When Stax went bankrupt in 1975 he moved to Jackson's Malaco, where "The Blues Is Alright" became his signature anthem. He died in Memphis in 2005.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 7.3 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.
• Bryant's Grocery — 30 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

• Hank Cochran — 6.8 mi
• Freedom School Bombing — 6.9 mi
• Giles Penny Savers Store — 7.0 mi
• Club Ebony — 7.3 mi