Meridian Rhythm & Blues and Soul Music

Al Wilson was born in Meridian in 1939 and moved with his family to San Bernardino, California, as a teenager, teaching himself drums. He sang with local groups and signed with Soul City Records in 1966. The Snake reached No. 27 on the pop chart in 1968 and became a favorite on Britain's Northern soul scene. Show and Tell, written and produced by Jerry Fuller, sold more than a million copies and went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. After his last chart entry in 1979 he worked clubs for twenty years. He died in 2008.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Meridian Civil Rights Trail — steps away
  An 18-stop self-guided trail through Meridian, from the Black business district and the 1964 Freedom Summer office to Wechsler School, the federal courthouse and James Chaney's grave.
• Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience — steps away
  Meridian's two-level museum of Mississippi artists and entertainers, opened in 2018, with a Hall of Fame and a Walk of Fame that leads to it from the Riley Center.
• Jimmie Rodgers Museum — 0.4 mi
  The museum in Meridian that holds the guitar of the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers, the first inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Highland Park Dentzel Carousel — 1.3 mi
  The last two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in the world, in its original carousel house in Meridian's Highland Park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987.

More markers nearby

• Temple Theater — steps away
• Elsie McWilliams — 0.2 mi
• Moe Bandy — 0.2 mi
• Meridian — 0.3 mi