Marty Gamblin

Marty Gamblin worked the business side of country music. Born Lamar Gamblin Jr. in Philadelphia in 1944, he toured and booked acts out of Jackson, then ran programs for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and directed the Choctaw Indian Fair. In 1977 he moved to Nashville to open a publishing company for songwriter Jim Weatherly, whose Midnight Train to Georgia was a number one hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips. As president of the Glen Campbell Music Group from 1982 to 2002 he helped launch Alan Jackson, and in 2010 he began leading The MAX in Meridian.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Neshoba County Jail — steps away
  The 1955 jail in downtown Philadelphia where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were held on June 21, 1964, hours before they were murdered.
• Chahta Immi Cultural Center — 4.6 mi
  The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' own museum and cultural center at Pearl River, with basketry, artifacts and the tribe's guidance on what visitors may see.
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 7.0 mi
  The Black church in Longdale burned by the Klan on June 16, 1964, rebuilt by its congregation, and the place Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner had gone to visit when they were murdered.
• Nanih Waiya — 14 mi
  The Mother Mound of the Choctaw in Winston County, a sacred origin place returned to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in 2008.

More markers nearby

• Marty Stuart — steps away
• Adam Monroe Byrd — steps away
• Otis Rush — 0.4 mi
• Bob Ferguson — 6.5 mi